Problem setting page margins for printing

I made a program that prints inventory reports at work, but I wanted to push back the margins a bit so I can use a font size one larger. As it is, some of the information is at font size 10. I do not want to use the "Page Settup" dialog to bug the user to change it; I wanted to set it automatically.
I tried taking the PageFormat argument to Printable's print() method and setting the imageable area like so...
    public int print(Graphics graphics, PageFormat pageFormat, int pageIndex)
        Paper formatEdit = pageFormat.getPaper();
        formatEdit.setImageableArea( 36,36, pageFormat.getWidth()-36,pageFormat.getHeight()-36);
        pageFormat.setPaper(formatEdit);
        ...Is this at least the general approach I should be using, or should I be doing something totally different?
As always, thanks much in advance.
Edited by: Loduwijk on Sep 25, 2008 3:40 PM
Edited by: Loduwijk on Sep 25, 2008 3:50 PM

Set them automatically based on what criteria?
If you just want to set them programatically, then as the Help indicates, use the Printing:Margins property to set those values.
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