Directly printing to a certain printer

When users have more than one printer available, sometimes a requirement is being able to print many documents to a certain printer. That printer is not necessarily the default printer.
Think of printing a set of invoices, for example. This is not a trivial task in wxWidgets.

The standard code to print a document is the following (see also this post):

    wxPrintDialogData printDialogData(* m_PrintData);
    wxPrinter printer( &printDialogData );
    bool success = printer.Print( NULL, &printout, true );

The code above shows a printer selection dialog, then it prints to the printer selected by the user.

After printing you can get the name of the selected printer with this code:

wxString pName = printer.GetPrintDialogData().GetPrintData().GetPrinterName();


Then you can use the printer name to print again directly to that printer:


    m_PrintData->SetPrinterName( pName );
    wxPrintDialogData printDialogData(* m_PrintData);
    wxPrinter printer( &printDialogData );
    bool success = printer.Print( NULL, &printout, false );

 The code above sets the printer name and prints without showing a printer selection dialog.

As you can see the solution a a simple one, but I had problems finding it because nobody seems to have this problem and I had to look hard in the documentation.