Printing Swing components doesn't work on all printers? Please Help!

Question

I have a really serious problem. I try to print Swing components with the so called PrintUtilities class. The source code can be found here: http://archive.corewebprogramming.com/Chapter15/printing/PrintUtilities.java).
My Swing components are panels (JPanel) including more panels and/or other components like text fields, text areas, combo boxes, radio buttons, check boxes and so on.
On one of my printers (Kyocera mita FS 1010) it works fine. But on other printers (Panasonic DP-2000, HP Deskjet 890 C) the results are weird: Only the first component (independent of the component depth) is printed (and it is every time the same result!).
I don't know whether this is important or not, but all printers I use are installed as network printers.
I have already searched the forum but couldn't find a similar problem.
Can anyone tell me what the problem is and what I can do to solve it?
Thank you for any response in advance!

Answer 1

try this:
package ayto;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
public class ComponenteParaImprimir
implements Printable {
private Component mComponent;
boolean isBook;
final static boolean PARA_BOOK = true;
final static boolean HARDCOPY = false;
public ComponenteParaImprimir(Component c, boolean book) {
mComponent = c;
isBook = book;
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex) {
if (pageIndex > 0 && !isBook) {
return NO_SUCH_PAGE;
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
g2.translate(pageFormat.getImageableX(), pageFormat.getImageableY());
boolean wasBuffered = disableDoubleBuffering(mComponent);
mComponent.paint(g2);
restoreDoubleBuffering(mComponent, wasBuffered);
return PAGE_EXISTS;
private boolean disableDoubleBuffering(Component c) {
if (c instanceof JComponent == false) {
return false;
JComponent jc = (JComponent) c;
boolean wasBuffered = jc.isDoubleBuffered();
jc.setDoubleBuffered(false);
return wasBuffered;
private void restoreDoubleBuffering(Component c, boolean wasBuffered) {
if (c instanceof JComponent) {
( (JComponent) c).setDoubleBuffered(wasBuffered);
}