Print with Java

Hi,
I have some documents to be printing by user.
I would like to print only with on click. I explain.
I have put a button in my web application that is 'Print'.
That i would like to do is, when the button is clicking by user, print start automaticaly whitout any other screen.
Is that possible ?
By default, when i want to print some documents, i always have a popup window that ask me which printer i want to choose. I want to specify it in code.
Thanks for reply
Imhotep

All right, i have got any solution to do what i want.
But is that possible to print the first page of a document in portrait, the second page in landscape and the last one in portrait ??

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I want to print a simple ASCII file on a USB printer under Win2K and
found 2 problems. Here is the 2nd one.
Even though
PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(<DocFlavor>, <AttributeSet>)
returns nothing when I specify any AttributeSet, I can still print on the default printer, which I get by
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