Re: How to persist print dialog settings?

I am trying to add a print capability to an application I am writing
and am having trouble getting the application to retain the settings
for ?landscape? versus ?portrait? each time the print dialog is
raised. That is, if the user sets landscape instead of portrait
orientation the first time he prints, I?d like it to show landscape in
all subsequent times he raises the print dialog. I am less concerned
about other settings. Unfortunately, I?ve not been successful with any
of them. Could someone point me in the right direction?

I am running under Windows XP Service Pack 3. Java 1.6.0_16.

To raise the printDialog, I do the following:

   PrinterJob printerJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
   printerJob.printDialog();

This brings up a dialog which resembles the Microsoft Office
applications and provides a Properties-button dialog that is
consistent with the properties for my printer. But it doesn?t retain
the page-orientation settings from invocation to invocation. I tried
the following:

   HashPrintRequestAttributeSet hpas = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet
();
   printJob.printDialog(hpas);

Which does allow me to retain the settings, but the print dialog looks
completely different and, worse, does not bring up a Properties dialog
at all. Nor does it include all the metadata for the printer that is
available using the no-arguments printDialog() call. I could use this
approach, but would really like to be able to show my users a dialog
that is compatible with their other applications and gives them full
access to the capabilities of their printer.

Does anyone a recommendations for using the print dialog that might
address this issue? Would this be addressed by using better way to
set up the PrintRequestAttributeSet? Is there a different approach
other than using a PrintRequestAttributeSet?

Thanks.

Gary

P.S. On a positive note, the printouts look really sharp and the Java
Graphics2D stuff is extremely accurate and a joy to use.