Printing Progress Bar

Question

Is there a way to turn off the printing progress bar?  It takes too long to be able to continue working when the bar is being shown.

Answer 1

first I don't agree with you in declaring the dialog in the method print because this method is called for each page (notice that it takes page number as argument).
So, you may declare the dialog and progress bar explicitly and update the progress in each call to print (or even, you may update the progress more than once in each call as you see suitable),
then your problem may occur because you do the printing in the EventDispatchThread (this will happen if you performed printing in actionPerformed() of a button, for example)
The EventDispatchThread is responsible also for updating the UI, so, if you perform printing in it, it will be busy in printing and have no time to update your UI, when printing is finished and the EventDispatchThread can update the UI, you will surely have removed the dialog.
if this is your case, try to make the printing occur in another thread
like this
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
     new Thread()
               public void run()
                    // do printing here
          }.start();
}