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Old 11-13-2008
jacco jacco is offline
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Try:
ssh user@remoteserver lpr < localfilename

It's called I/O redirection.
The local shell connects the local file 'localfilename' to the std-input filedescriptor of the ssh-command and ssh connects it's std-input to the std-input of the remote command (lpr)