Printing multiple hidden JPanels using Book and Pageable

Question

I am trying to print a number (in some cases a large number) of JPanels that reside in a Vector; they are only visible one-at-a-time but need to be printed all together. When printing if I am viewing the first page the first page is printed. If viewing any other page nothing is printed at all. I believe that the latter issue is a result of the first page being blank and causing printing to halt when NO_SUCH_PAGE is returned to the print manager.
After some searching I have found no reasonable way to manage this. Displaying each page before appending it to the Book will be cumbersome so I am looking for a way to take each JPanel out of the Vector and add it to the Book for printing.
public static void print(Vector book) {
      bk = new Book();     
      PageFormat pf = new PageFormat();
      pf.setOrientation(PageFormat.LANDSCAPE);
      Paper sheet = pf.getPaper();
      sheet.setSize(paperWidth, paperHeight);
      sheet.setImageableArea(x, y, width, height);
      pf.setPaper(sheet);
      for (Iterator it = book.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
         bk.append(new PrintPage((Preview)(it.next())), pf);
      print();
   protected static void print() {
      PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();     
      printJob.setPageable(bk);
      if (printJob.printDialog()) {
         try {
            printJob.print();
         } catch (PrinterException pe) {
            System.out.println("Error printing: " + pe);
   }Any help would be much appreciated. If you have any idea how this might be accomplished I would love to hear it.
Thanks...

Answer 1

An update...
I have ferreted the issues down to a strange inconsistency in the Printable page class:
public class PrintPage implements Printable {
   Component toBePrinted;
   public PrintPage(Component componentToBePrinted) {
      this.toBePrinted = componentToBePrinted;
//         JFrame testFrame = new JFrame();
//         testFrame.getContentPane().add(toBePrinted);
//         toBePrinted.setVisible(true);
//         toBePrinted.validate();
//         testFrame.pack();
//         testFrame.setVisible(true);
   public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex) {
      if (pageIndex > 0) {
         return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
      } else {
         Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
//         JFrame testFrame = new JFrame();
//         testFrame.getContentPane().add(toBePrinted);
//         toBePrinted.setVisible(true);
//         toBePrinted.validate();
//         testFrame.pack();
//         testFrame.setVisible(true);
         g2d.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(),  pageFormat.getImageableY());
         disableDoubleBuffering(toBePrinted);
         toBePrinted.setVisible(true);
         toBePrinted.validate();
         toBePrinted.paint(g2d);
         enableDoubleBuffering(toBePrinted);
         return PAGE_EXISTS;
   }(Fogive the commented lines, they are to illustrate the JFrame test described below)
If I create a new JFrame in the constructor and add the JPanel / Component 'toBePrinted' to it I can see the contents perfectly fine. If I do the same in the print() method prior to printing there is only content for the first page and four other JFrames with no content. It seems that the JPanels are not being rendered in the print() method which is screwy since the constructor has no problems, the same scope, access, etc.
Any ideas?