Actually, I think that you can call an out of proc server to do this (I havent tried, my web servers are out-of-proc anyway). But it's still a kludge.

>Could you launch an EXE from ShellExecute() that could have the momentary visual presence and go away after the print job is finished?
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>>just to add- this is very important for web server dlls that need to create PDF files using a virtual printer. The inability to do this is pretty lamejust because of that stupid little dialog.