Help Please - Landscape Printing in JDK1.3

Question

Iam trying to print a line of text of 160 chars wide in landscape
format. The ImageableWidth and ImageableHeight are 792 and 612
respectively. The ImageableX and ImageableY are both 72(1 inch).
Font -> ("Courier", Font.PLAIN, 7),
noOfChars/line -> 162 for the Imageable area 792 x 612
But after printing I could see the line starting after 2 inches
as Right Margin, because of which, I'm not able to print the
complete 160 char line.
I set the value posX=0 to start after 1 inch, but still the printing
starts only after 2 inches but initial few chars are eaten.
when posX = 72
<- 2" R Margin ->0123456789 0123456789 .... 154th char
when posX = 0
<- 2" R Margin ->56789 0123456789 ....... 160th char
please help.
lenin.
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
public class Printer implements Printable {
     public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat format, int pageIndex) {
     String content = "0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 " +
          "0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 " +
          "0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 " +
          "0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 " +
          "0123456789 0123456789 0123456789 012345";
     int totalWidth = (int) format.getImageableWidth();
     int totalHeight = (int) format.getImageableHeight();
     System.out.println("ImageableWidth : " + totalWidth);
     System.out.println("ImageableHeight : " + totalHeight);
     int posX = (int) (format.getImageableX());
     int posY = (int) (format.getImageableY());
     posY += 20;
     System.out.println("PosX : " + posX);
     System.out.println("PosY : " + posY);          
     pageIndex++;
     FontMetrics fontMetrics =
g.getFontMetrics(new Font("Courier", Font.PLAIN, 7));
     int charWidth = fontMetrics.stringWidth("W");
     int charHeight = fontMetrics.getHeight() + 1;
     int noOfLines = Math.round(totalHeight / charHeight);
     int noOfCharsPerLine = Math.round(totalWidth / charWidth);
     System.out.println("No Of Lines : " + noOfLines);
     System.out.println("No Of Char/Line : " + noOfCharsPerLine);
     if (pageIndex > 0) {
     g.setFont(new Font("Courier", Font.PLAIN, 7));
     g.drawString(content, posX, posY);
     return 0;          
     public static void main(String args[]) {
          Printer myPrinter = new Printer();
          PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
          PageFormat pageFormat = job.defaultPage();
          pageFormat.setOrientation(PageFormat.LANDSCAPE);
          Book book = new Book();          
          book.append(myPrinter,pageFormat);          
          job.setPageable(book);
          if (job.printDialog()) {
               try {
                    job.print();
               catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
          System.exit(0);

Answer 1

Hi,
I'm developing a report program with java and I want to print this report.
These are my page settings:
paper.setSize(594.936, 841.536);
paper.setImageableArea(0,0,594.936, 841.536)
and my print method includes :
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
g2d.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(), pageFormat.getImageableY());
but I can't use the page effectively. I have 28 mm blank from the left and 13 mm blank from the right.
I can't write anything this blank sections. It looks as if it was deleted.
What should I do?
Thank you very much for your help.