Printing is forbidden by the
Java sandbox. Believe it or not, Evil Things can be done with print requests.
In order to get an applet to print, you have to set up the appropriate applet security and then digitally sign the applet.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.