Printing Orientation Setting from Properties... Button on Print Dialog

I am trying to add printing to a graphics application I have developed, and have noticed that if I use the standard code to open the Print dialog:
    PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
    printJob.setPrintable(new PagePrinter(0));
    if (printJob.printDialog()) {
        try {
            printJob.print();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
    }the Print dialog appears, and if I click the "Properties..." button for the selected printer (I am testing with an HP 1210), the printer-specific properties dialog allows me to select portrait or landscape orientation, but if I change this setting, click OK, then click Print in the Print Dialog, the change to the orientation setting seems to be ignored,. For example, if Ithe default orientation is Portrait, but I use this setting to change the orientation to Landscape, the PageFormat information passed to my Printable still is based on Portrait orientation.
The fact that this setting appears to be ignored would be very confusing to a user of my program. Is there a solution to this problem?
I have the same problem if I use the Book class, in that I have to indicate the page format I want to use for each page when I call "append" on my Book instance, and when the Print dialog is subsequently opened, if I click "Properties..." and change the orientation, this change is ignored.
It there any recommended way to handle this?

I have the same problem too. Anyone got a solution?
/Johan

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