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Eric Bennett (ericb@psu.edu) wrote:
: In article <danpop.807467749@rscernix> Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
: >In <ericb.513.301F92A2@psu.edu> ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) writes:
: >>In article <MARTUS.95Aug2053524@w20-575-33.mit.edu> Dave Hwang <martus@mit.edu> writes:
: >>
: >>Apple's new drivers for the StyleWriter 1200 give you the option of putting a 
: >>printer icon on the desktop.  For the general case of printing any document on 
: >>any printer, you can select the documents in the Finder and choose "print" 
: >>from the file menu.  The Finder will launch the relevant applications and send 
: >>them an Apple Event which tells them to print the documents.

: >What if the relevant application is no longer present on the system? :-)
: >lpr doesn't need to launch any relevant applications.  A running lpd
: >is enough.

: There are advantages to each approach.  No, I can't use the Finder's print 
: without the application installed.  But then you can't just LPR a JPEG file, 
: while I can print one from the Finder (if the appropriate application is 
: installed).

Actually you can, as long as you have some sort of filter software installed
(i.e. magicfilter) and the associated programs to mangle a JPG into something
that your printer can work with.  Without this filter, you're right, you
can't print a JPG file.

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