This lesson teaches you how to use the Java Printing API to print from your Java applications. You'll learn how to render the contents of your components to a printer instead of a display device and how to compose and print multipage documents. This lesson assumes that you've read the first lesson in this trail, Overview of the Java 2D API (Covered in Last issue CD), and that you are familiar with using a Graphics2D rendering context. 

Overview of Printing in Java: This section gives you an overview of the support for printing AWT and Java 2D graphics and describes the Java printing model. 

Printing the Contents of a Component: This section teaches you how to create a PrinterJob and how to use a Printable to print the contents of a component. 

Displaying a Page Setup Dialog: This section describes the standard page setup dialog and teaches you how to use it to allow a user to set up a print job. 

Printing a Collection of Pages: This section teaches you how to set up a Book to print a collection of pages that do not all have the same size or orientation.