Printing multipage TIFFs from an applet.

Hi Folks,

I need to be able to print multipage tiffs from an applet (usning IE6.x and JDK1.4). The code below does work however it takes about 2-3 minutes per page. Some of the tiffs I need to print are 20 pages in size. As you can imagine waiting over an hour for a doc to print isn't going down very well. I've attempted turning off double buffering which stop huge spool files being created, however doesn't speed up the print. I've also disabled postscript printing on the printer (read somewhere that this can cause slow printing) but to no avail.

Any ideas? I need to get the printing speed around the same speed as printing directly from windows?

Document print

      if (name.equals("buttonPrint"))
      {
          //Custom button text
          Object[] options = {"Print All Pages", "Print Selected Page", "Cancel Print"};
                             
          int n = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(
            null, "Would you like to print all the pages or the selected page?",
            "Print",  JOptionPane.YES_NO_CANCEL_OPTION,
            JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE,
            null,
            options,
            options[2]);
               
          if (n == 0)
          {
            try
            {
              // print all pages
              // Open the file.
             
               viewPanel.setDoubleBuffered(false);
             
             
             
              // Don't need to make second call to the URL to get Image
             
              //Page p = PageGetter.getPage(printURL);
              Page p = annotationViewer.getImageSource();
             
             
              p.load(null);

 
              while (p.getState() != Page.PAGE_STATE_LOADED)
              {
                Thread.sleep(500);
              }

     


              AnnotatedPagePrintable app = new AnnotatedPagePrintable(p, true);
         
              // Create a PrinterJob.
              PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();

              // Set the margins.
              PageFormat pf = pj.defaultPage();
           
              // Now Print the page.
              pj.setPrintable(app, pf);
             
              pj.print();
             
              viewPanel.setDoubleBuffered(true);
             
          }
          catch (Exception ex)
          {
             //  Something went wrong.
            ex.printStackTrace();
          }
        }
        else if (n == 1)
        {
          annotationViewer.printImage();
        }    

      }