Printing JTable after turning off double buffering causing repaint problems

Question

I've followed all the instructions to speed up a print job in java by turning off double buffering temporarily by using the following call before calling paint() on the component...
RepaintManager.currentManager(printTable).setDoubleBufferingEnabled(false);
... and then turning it back on afterwards...
RepaintManager.currentManager(printTable).setDoubleBufferingEnabled(true);
but the problem is that if it is a long print job, then the rest of the application (including other JTables) isn't repainting properly at all. I have the printing going on in a separate thread since I don't think it's acceptable UI practices to force the user to wait until a print job finishes before they can proceed with using their application. I've tried controlling the double buffering at the JPanel level as well, but it always affects the entire application until the print spooling is complete.
Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this annoying SWING printing problem?
Thanks,
- Tony

Answer 1

When you post code, make sure and put it between code
tags, so it looks good:
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Doesn't this look great?");
    public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pageIndex) {
        System.out.println( "Calling print(g,pf,pageIndex) method" );
        int response = NO_SUCH_PAGE;
        Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
// for faster printing, turn off double buffering
        disableDoubleBuffering(componentToBePrinted);
        Dimension d = componentToBePrinted.getSize(); //get size of document
        double panelWidth = d.width; //width in pixels
        double panelHeight = d.height; //height in pixels
        double pageHeight = pf.getImageableHeight(); //height of printer page
        double pageWidth = pf.getImageableWidth(); //width of printer page
        double scale = pageWidth / panelWidth;
        int totalNumPages = (int) Math.ceil(scale * panelHeight / pageHeight);
// make sure not print empty pages
        if (pageIndex >= totalNumPages) {
            response = NO_SUCH_PAGE;
        } else {
// shift Graphic to line up with beginning of print-imageable region
            g2.translate(pf.getImageableX(), pf.getImageableY());
// shift Graphic to line up with beginning of next page to print
            g2.translate(0f, -pageIndex * pageHeight);
// scale the page so the width fits...
            g2.scale(scale, scale);
            componentToBePrinted.paint(g2); //repaint the page for printing
            enableDoubleBuffering(componentToBePrinted);
            response = Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
        return response;
    }