Applet prints parts of Java2d image

Question

I am using PrintJob. My applet draws rectangles, then I use shear to draw perspectives.
All drawing is in paint method.
Here is the piece of font where I use it
printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
printJob.setPrintable(this);
if (printJob.printDialog()) {
try{                    
printJob.print();}
catch (Exception ex){
ex.printStackTrace();}
To get the screen ready to be printed, I call paint again:
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pi) throws PrinterException {
if (pi >= 1) {
return Printable.NO_SUCH_PAGE;
paint(g);
return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
The result is that I get printed separately each part.
First the rectangles before applying the shear transform, and after that I get the rectangles drawn with shear and transorm.
It seems that the image is drawn in layers and each one is printed separately.
How can I draw the whole image as one single "flat" image?
Thanks.

Answer 1

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/Programming/JDCBook/render.html
The link above is to a tutorial that covers printing. I found it particularly useful especially the part that discusses printing multiple objects. I was having difficulties printing when there where multiple obects involved and this tutorial cleared this issue up for me.
I hope this helps
=)