Printing on paper without spaces ?

Question

Sir,
I have a problem with printing the page of course it is printing the page without any problem but the problem does exists in the setup.I have used the code provided in the forum for printing.Where here when the printing is on, the printer starts the printing after leaving
some spaces. But i want to print the page from where i start(from where i insert the paper).I have used the following code for printing.Here i couldn't find out where i need to make the changes.So,pls. do help me in this regard.I will be so thankful to u.
My code is:-
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat,int pageIndex) throws PrinterException
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
g2.setColor(Color.black);
g2.setFont(fnt);
int fontHeight=g2.getFontMetrics().getHeight();
int fontDesent=g2.getFontMetrics().getDescent();
//leave room for page number
double pageHeight = pageFormat.getImageableHeight()-fontHeight;
double pageWidth = pageFormat.getImageableWidth();
double tableWidth = (double) tableView.getColumnModel().getTotalColumnWidth();
double scale = 1;
if (tableWidth >= pageWidth) {
scale = pageWidth / tableWidth;
double headerHeightOnPage=
tableView.getTableHeader().getHeight()*scale;
double tableWidthOnPage=tableWidth*scale;
double oneRowHeight=(tableView.getRowHeight()+
tableView.getRowMargin())*scale;
int numRowsOnAPage=
(int)((pageHeight-headerHeightOnPage)/oneRowHeight);
double pageHeightForTable=oneRowHeight*numRowsOnAPage;
int totalNumPages= (int)Math.ceil((
(double)tableView.getRowCount())/numRowsOnAPage);
if(pageIndex>=totalNumPages)
return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
g2.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(),
pageFormat.getImageableY());
g2.drawString("Page: "+(pageIndex+1),(int)pageWidth/2-35, //For printing the page no. at the bottom
(int)(pageHeight+fontHeight-fontDesent));//bottom center
g2.translate(0f,headerHeightOnPage);
g2.translate(0f,-pageIndex*pageHeightForTable);
//If this piece of the table is smaller than the size available,
//clip to the appropriate bounds.
if (pageIndex + 1 == totalNumPages)
int lastRowPrinted = numRowsOnAPage * pageIndex;
int numRowsLeft = tableView.getRowCount() - lastRowPrinted;
g2.setClip(0, (int)(pageHeightForTable * pageIndex),
(int) Math.ceil(tableWidthOnPage),
(int) Math.ceil(oneRowHeight * numRowsLeft));
//else clip to the entire area available.
else{
g2.setClip(0, (int)(pageHeightForTable*pageIndex),
(int) Math.ceil(tableWidthOnPage),
(int) Math.ceil(pageHeightForTable));
g2.scale(scale,scale);
tableView.paint(g2);
g2.scale(1/scale,1/scale);
g2.translate(0f,pageIndex*pageHeightForTable);
g2.translate(0f, -headerHeightOnPage);
g2.setClip(0, 0,(int) Math.ceil(tableWidthOnPage),
(int)Math.ceil(headerHeightOnPage));
g2.scale(scale,scale);
tableView.getTableHeader().paint(g2);//paint header at top
return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
Thanx,
m.ananthu

Answer 1

i believe that there are hardware constraings on this, for example when you use microsoft word there is a minimum size for the margiens, so i believe that there are limitations. There are methods in the printing api to find out just how much of the page you can and can't print on, as well as how big the page is
check out the api documentation
hope this helps
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