Printing to multiple printers

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Oct 11 21:11:12 EDT 2004


On 10/11/04 7:25 PM, Jesse Sng wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How do I print selectively to multiple printers? The scenario that I 
> have is that in a doctor's clinic, there are different printers fitted 
> with different types of forms and paper and I need to be able to 
> generate labels on one printer, while printing out receipts on another etc.
> 
> There seems to be a way to do this from OS 9 but not from OS X.

In OS X the printer is chosen from the print dialog rather than from the 
Page Setup dialog. So issue your print command like this:

  print this card with dialog

That will allow the user to choose a printer. There is no way in either 
OS 9 or OS X to choose a printer without user intervention.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com


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