Easy way to make hard copies at full printer resolution

["Kristian Kjær" <Kristian.Kjaer(at)Risoe.DK>]

My apologies if this is turning into a FAQ:

 One thing that makes IDL somewhat inconvenient for _interactive_ data
display
 and reduction is the lack of a command (equivalent to - dare I say it -

 alt(File)...Print... in MS-Windows programs) to produce a hard copy of
the
 current plot with the resolution offered by the printer.

 Ideally I'd like to sit and type into the IDL command prompt, using
native IDL
 commands and my own (wrapper, mainly) routines and, when a useful plot
 resulted on the screen, make a hard copy of it without any extra
trouble.

I just did a quick surf and found some great stuff:

http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/xwindow.pro
seems to do nearly what I want. (Thanks, Craig B. Markwardt and David
Fanning!)
One drawback (from my point of view) is that apparently one can
only issue one plotting command for each plot - no oplot, xyouts, etc.
can
be added afterwards. Also, one cannot get several plots on the page with
!p.multi.

 ftp://airs2.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/paulv/idl/Graphics/direct_graphics/wplot.pro
and
 ftp://airs2.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/paulv/idl/Graphics/direct_graphics/woplot.pro

(thanks, Paul van Delst!) allow to add an oplot to the plot, but then
we'd also
need wxyouts, wcontour, etc.

Does anyone know about any other user-routines along these lines?

And, why is it that IDL cannot get round to offering this kind of
functionality built-in?

Thanks for any help,
Kristian