BIP and szending output to a printer

Hi,
I am perusing the BIP documentation looking for how to print my report directly to a printer. The only reference I am seeing is to IPP. I must be missing something, because all I need to do is send my output to printers already defined on my server.
Please trell me how I can simply print to my already defined printer without setting up IPP.
thx,
Gary

This would be a start:
http://www.scantips.com/basics01.html
When you're talking about 300dpi art, in reality it should be 300ppi (pixels per inch). Below is a quote from that Scan Tips site:
Printer ink dots and image pixels are very different concepts, but both use the term dpi in their own way (dots per inch).
Inkjet printer dpi ratings refer to printer ink dots (the four colors of ink), which is NOT AT ALL the same thing as image pixels. These are such different concepts that some people think we should reserve the term dpi for those inkjet ink dots, and reserve use of ppi only for image pixels. Not a bad plan, except that this view fails to recognize real world usage.
In the quote above, when they say "Inkjet printer dpi ratings", it applies also to offset printing presses.

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