macintosh@felix.UUCP (09/19/87)
[Macintosh Technical Notes - #161: When to Call PrOpen and PrClose]
At one time we recommended that developers call PrOpen at the
beginning of their application and PrClose at the end before
returning to the Finder. This was in the ancient past when there
was only one printer driver that an application had to deal with.
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