Auto-printing a pdf to a printer name stored as variable?

Hi,
I have an app that creates two different documents, both of
which need to be printed. One is a letter-sized pdf, the other is a
4X6 label, also pdf. They need to be printed on different printers
- the letter-sized one on a regular office printer, the label on -
imagine this - a label printer.
Ideally, I'd like this all to happen automatically, but from
what I've found researching this, content can't be printed without
the user clicking "ok" in a printer dialogue. That's ok, but I want
to avoid making users choose the correct printer for each document
every time they do this. The potential for choosing the wrong
printer when switching back and forth like that is just too great,
and will result in the wrong document being printed on the wrong
printer, probably often enough to be annoying.
So, what I'd like to do: have a setting in a user's account
preferences where they can designate both their regular printer,
and their label printer. Then, when the docs are generated, have
the print dialogue automatically pop up WITH THE PROPER PRINTER
SELECTED so all they have to do is click ok.
Is this doable? Can anyone suggest a technique??
Thanks...

You cant do this with CF. CF is a server-side language, and thus has no idea what printers are installed on the client machine. Depending on how your application is setup, and whether the printers in question are installed on the server as well, might allow you to come up with something, but your proposed solution is not going to work.

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