A couple of things here:

- printing does not have to go through a displayed dialog at all. You
can print without ever asking the user anything

- Not the dialog, but the print job is protected by the security
manager. You can indeed fake a print dialog with a cancel button which
uses PrintJob.setCopies(1000) - if you are allowed to get a PrintJob

The conclusion from these two facts is, that you can simply design an
own print dialog from scratch, and present it to the user whenever you
like. You collect the data from the dialog, configure a PrintJob,
without using ant PrintJob dialogs accordingly and off you go.

If you want to play it more complex, the concrete PrintJob class used
(PrintJob itself is abstract), is specified via the java.awt.printerjob
system property. i haven't tried it, but it should be possible to
implement a subclass of PrintJob from scratch, and use that one to
replace the default implementation. This will get you whatever dialog
you want. But there is really not much to gain doing it this way,
because you can anyhow pop up your own dialog whenever you want.

/Thomas