Printing with presets

Hello Community,
i want to print from AI through a script. No problem so far, but always the windows standard printer is used. But i want to use another printer for some printings, or use other presets. There are several named printer presets defined in my AI, "Standard", "OKI_C_9500", "OKI_C_9650" and so on.
After a search i found a solution to print with presets from Indesign, but not from Illustrator. In AI are no aceesible "PrinterPresets" like in Indesign.
So how i can print with named presets from AI? Other solution could be just to change the active printer within the script for the actual printing.
Best regards
Torsten

Hi,
yes this is it. After i changed my Computer i lost the PDF "illustrator_scripting_reference_javascript". And in the "ExtendScript Toolkit" Folder it is just "JavaScript Tools Guide CS4" and "Adobe Intro to Scripting.
Now i found the PDF´s again :-)
Thanks a lot
Torsten

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