I noticed that when you do the print manually from the explorer, it does fire up a visible copy of word to do the job. (I hadn't really paid attention when I did this in the past).
It's probably just about as easy to put a wrapper around the suggested method in MS OA with VFP as it is to fiddle around with API.
"The Iron Fish: The water is cold...but the fish don't mind"
...Jay Jenks, boyhood chum