Additional CR when printing unicode character

Hello,
the following code prints two lines on a printer. The second line contains an escaped unicode character. When running the example code I can't even see the unicode character on the paper; but in my original application it is visible. So this is not the problem. But always an additional carriage return is inserted after the unicode character, thus overprinting the beginning of the line with the remaining text. This did not occur in java 6 if I remember correctly. Is there any workaround for this?
Regards
J.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class HelloWorldPrinter implements Printable, ActionListener {
    public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int page) throws
                                                        PrinterException {
        if (page > 0) return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
        Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
        g2d.translate(pf.getImageableX(), pf.getImageableY());
        g.drawString("Hello world!", 100, 100);
        g.drawString("Now the line with a unicode \u2259 character.", 100, 120);
        return PAGE_EXISTS;
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
         PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
         job.setPrintable(this);
         boolean ok = job.printDialog();
         if (ok) {
             try {
                  job.print();
             } catch (PrinterException ex) {
                  System.out.println(ex);
    public static void main(String args[]) {
//        UIManager.put("swing.boldMetal", Boolean.FALSE);
        JFrame f = new JFrame("Hello World Printer");
        f.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
           public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
           System.exit(0);
        JButton printButton = new JButton("Print");
        printButton.addActionListener(new HelloWorldPrinter());
        f.add("Center", printButton);
        f.pack();
        f.setVisible(true);
}

Hello Sabre,
thank you for testing. Of course it's good news that you don't see any overprinting, but unfortunately that doesn't help me on my site (Win7 64-Bit, java 1.7.0_09).
Since I can see the character in my original application as I wrote, I made up the following test case and met a strange behaviour. I can make my desired unicode character appear without any overprinting as long as I don't use any other character in the string below 2000(16).
Kindly run the following code. It prints a line of unicode characters starting with my desired one.
Then change iConstant in makeTextLine() to any value below 0x2000. At my site this results in overprinting.
Does it also happen at yours?
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class UnicodeTest extends JFrame implements Printable {
String text= "Test line with unicode \u2259 character.";
public UnicodeTest() {
    setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    setSize(350, 200);
    text= makeTextLine();
    JLabel lb= new JLabel("<html>Printing started...<br>"+text);
    add(lb);
    setVisible(true);
    PrinterJob printerJob= PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
    printerJob.setPrintable(this);
    try {
      printerJob.print();
    catch (PrinterException e) {
      System.out.println("PrinterException: "+e);
public static void main(String args[]) {
    java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
     new UnicodeTest();
public String makeTextLine() {
    StringBuilder sb= new StringBuilder();
    int iStartValue= 0x2259;
    int iConstant= 0x2020; // Tested with 0x100, 200, 400, 800, 1000, 2000.
    for (int i=iStartValue; i<iStartValue+30; i++) {
      sb.append((char)i);
      sb.append((char)iConstant);
    return sb.toString();
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int page) throws
                                                        PrinterException {
    if (page > 0) return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
    Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
    g2d.translate(pf.getImageableX(), pf.getImageableY());
    g2d.setFont(new Font("Dialog", Font.PLAIN, 12));
    g.drawString(text, 50, 40);
    return PAGE_EXISTS;
}

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