Therefore, the print job doesn’t have an accurate page count until after the printout is complete. For that reason, the print dialog box can’t display the correct page range—instead it displays “Pages 1 to 1.” You will see in the next section how to avoid this blemish by supplying a Book object to the print job.
During the printing process, the print job repeatedly calls the print method of the Printable object. The print job is allowed to make multiple calls for the same page. You should therefore not count pages inside the print method but always rely on the page number parameter. There is a good reason why the print job might call the print method repeatedly for the same page. Some printers, in particular dot-matrix and inkjet printers, use ...
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