Need Printing Help (location to top-left?)

Question

im able to print out a JFrame, no problem..but the onscreen image and whats printed on paper arent exactly the same
1) Printed is 1.5 - 2X bigger than onscreen (1280x1024 resolution)
2) Printed starts near the middle of the page, not at the top left hand corner
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);
  /** The speed and quality of printing suffers dramatically if
   *  any of the containers have double buffering turned on.
   *  So this turns if off globally.
   *  @see enableDoubleBuffering
  public static void disableDoubleBuffering(Component c) {
    RepaintManager currentManager = RepaintManager.currentManager(c);
    currentManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(false);
  /** Re-enables double buffering globally. */
  public static void enableDoubleBuffering(Component c) {
    RepaintManager currentManager = RepaintManager.currentManager(c);
    currentManager.setDoubleBufferingEnabled(true);
}by simply calling PrintUtilities.print(myJFrame), it prints. how can i maka the onscreen and the printed page be "exact size" and how can i make it start printing from the top left hand corner?
thanks
i tried using myMainPanel.setLocation(0,0); in the gui construction...and also setting g2d.setFont(smallerFont); from PrintUtilities..but doesnt work at all
any ideas? thanks

Answer 1

You should change some piece of code ....Just change the part in :
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex) {...}
function.
1) scale the graphics to see the whole screen on the page
/**copy this code before
* "componentToBePrinted.paint(g2d);"
*line
Dimension dimension=componentToBePrinted.getSize();
g2d.scale( 1.0*pageFormat.getWidth()/dimension.width,
1.0*pageFormat.getHeight()/dimension.height );
// "1.0*" is for casting to double2) delete the code line :
g2d.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(), pageFormat.getImageableY());to start drawingfrom (0,0) coordinate