Choosing printers w/o using chooser (is it possible?)

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From: Steve Neruda
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1988 17:37

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Is there any software available that will allow you to choose a printer on
  an appletalk or ethertalk network without having the user open the 
  chooser?  We need to be able to have reciepts from our 4D database
  automatically sent to one of two imagewriters without leaving the 
  chooser set to that printer so that no one will print word processing
  documents on reciept forms.

Ideally a pascal (or some other language) program that would take as an
  argument the intended printer to be selected and would return a flag
  to indicate success or failure in choosing the intended printer.  Has anyone
  seen any such code lying around or any comercially available software that
  might do the job?  A smart print spooler might be a good solution!

I would really appreciate any leads on a solution to this problem.  

				Steve Neruda (neruda@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu)

  No opinions were expressed in this article and therefore no disclaimer is
  really necessary.  Any opinions found are purely accidental and can be
  attributed to the author.

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From: neruda@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Steve Neruda)
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Subject: Choosing printers w/o using chooser (is it possible?)
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Date: 26 Sep 88 17:37:47 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science
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Keywords: printing, chooser, 4D, help!