How do I change the rendering resolution for printing?

Question

Has anyone figured this out yet? I am writting an app the prints out forms and lots of reports and they keep coming out very ugly because it is only printing at 72dpi, I need it to be at 300 or so...
Thanks,
Peter

Answer 1

I figure out how to do this after much searching. Before I was creating a bufferedimage then drawing all my content on that then drawing the bufferedimage on to the graphics that go to the printer.
Instead I found out the better approach is to do something like this:
class PrintablePage extends JPanel implements Printable {
  PrintablePage() {
    super(false); //Disable dubble buffering
  public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
    //Do all the drawing here
  public void print(Graphics g, PageFormat format, int page) {
    Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
    this.paint(g2);
    g2.dispose();
    g2 = null;
}For some reason this prints out much higher quality than any other way I have found to print things. I don't know the exact dpi, but it is much better than the 72 I had before.