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From: randy@tessa.iaf.uiowa.edu (randy frank)
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Subject: Printing using lpr from showcase
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Date: 22 Jun 91 15:49:39 GMT
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	I've seen a number of people complaining about the inability
of showcase to print via lpr and using the EPS and external lpr method.
Well, this simplest route I have seen (and use a variant of myself to
print to VAX printers) is to create a new network lp printer which does
nothing but invoke lpr.  This seems to work very well.  It can be a little
trickey to support all the lpr command line flags (this can be done with
a small simple FORMS program which is invoked as part of the process or
by limiting those options).  It just seems cleaner from a user's point
of view to print to a special lp printer which automatically invokes lpr.

Just a thought...

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