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Documentation on the Java Printing API is pretty sparse. However I have finally come across a decent document on it. This link explains how to print a Java component. The crux of it comes down to this code which I'm going to repost here just incase the link dies (NB I'm not taking credit for the code below).

I've previously had high quality printing out of Java using Graphics2D, however I had odd problems when using animated gifs in the App at the same time. The gifs would come up in the printing output, not surprisingly double buffering was causing the problem.

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.print.*;

public class PrintUtilities implements Printable {
private Component componentToBePrinted;

public static void printComponent(Component c) {
  new PrintUtilities(c).print();
}

public PrintUtilities(Component componentToBePrinted) {
  this.componentToBePrinted = componentToBePrinted;
}

public void print() {
  PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
  printJob.setPrintable(this);
  if (printJob.printDialog())
    try {
      printJob.print();
    } catch(PrinterException pe) {
      System.out.println("Error printing: " + pe);
    }
}

public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex) {
  if (pageIndex > 0) {
    return(NO_SUCH_PAGE);
  } else {
    Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
    g2d.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(), pageFormat.getImageableY());
    disableDoubleBuffering(componentToBePrinted);
    componentToBePrinted.paint(g2d);
    enableDoubleBuffering(componentToBePrinted);
    return(PAGE_EXISTS);
  }
}

public static void disableDoubleBuffering(Component c) {
  RepaintManager currentManager = RepaintManager.currentManager(c);
  currentManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(false);
}

public static void enableDoubleBuffering(Component c) {
  RepaintManager currentManager = RepaintManager.currentManager(c);
  currentManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(true);
}
}