>There's no simple way, unfortunately. The ShellExecute opens the default application for the specified file type and forces this application to print.
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>If not using API, I would create a simple web page around an image file -- single IMG tag. And then I would use the Browser control or IE object to print this page.
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>With GDI API you have to open this file, create memory device context, obtain the device context for a printer and so on, and so on -- quite a lengthy and boring stuff.
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>Even if GDI+ API simplifies the process of image file printing, it still requires some coding.

I see, thanks a lot for your explanation. I may then go the first route.