I've had a number of PDF documents to print all at once with standard printer settings. I know that I can drag and drop them on to the printer proxy which then prints them out on the printer without opening the Print dialog each time.
As I usually don't have the printer proxies in my dock or on my Desktop and rarely in the Recent Applications Dock item, I typically opened and printed at least one of the PDF documents from Preview or Acrobat Reader to open the desired printer proxy.
It turned out that it is actually not necessary to print a document.
If you you already have opened an arbitrary application which supports printing and has an open document (e.g. a web browser) open the Print dialog there.
From within the print dialog hold down the Command and Option keys while selecting your desired printer from the popup button. The printer proxy of the selected printer opens immediately.
I don't know if this behavior is supported for Systems prior to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and for 10.7 Lion.
[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described, in 10.7.2.]
As I usually don't have the printer proxies in my dock or on my Desktop and rarely in the Recent Applications Dock item, I typically opened and printed at least one of the PDF documents from Preview or Acrobat Reader to open the desired printer proxy.
It turned out that it is actually not necessary to print a document.
If you you already have opened an arbitrary application which supports printing and has an open document (e.g. a web browser) open the Print dialog there.
From within the print dialog hold down the Command and Option keys while selecting your desired printer from the popup button. The printer proxy of the selected printer opens immediately.
I don't know if this behavior is supported for Systems prior to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and for 10.7 Lion.
[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described, in 10.7.2.]
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