very slow printing with java.​awt.​print.​PrinterJob

[daschicken]

Hi guys,

currently I'm encountering a strange behavior while using the PrinterJob class.

I've got a little program printing some pages. Most of the time the printer does its job as it should. But sometimes it takes minutes printing a page which was printed before in seconds.
It's absolutely random and not reproducible.

Following, the gist of the used code.
Where the Printable is a simple class implementing Printable and printing some text using Graphics.

    private void createPrinterJob(...) {
        try {
            Printable gp = new Printable( ... );
            PrinterJob pjob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
            if (pjob.printDialog() == false) {
                return;
            }
            pjob.setPrintable(gp);
            pjob.print();
        } catch (PrinterException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
 

I would be very glad if somebody ran across the same problem before and knows how to fix it.

[Bob Sigmon]

The call to setPrintable() is the culprit. I have written several printing routines, and they all call setPrintable(). If you take that out, it will process very quickly (but will not print). I have not found any way to speed this up.