On 19/02/2011, at 3:30 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Cameron, > > Thanks for your suggestion!!!! > > On my system that command results in printing the document on the > desired printer, but does not return back to the shell prompt. If I add > -terminate_after_init so that the command line is : > > openoffice.org -headless -pt lpt3 document.doc -terminate_after_init > > The above command returns back to the prompt but the document is not > printed. Ah, so it does... looking around, I see that it works as documented in versions of OOo before 3.1 (3.0.1 should work, and prior). You're certainly not alone. I wonder if this will be useful for you: http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/batch-command-line-file-conversion-with.html For further help, you ought to get better help on the OOo forums etc.