I called my father and had him check using his machine which still has OS 8.6. Apparently the behavior I describe is the default behavior of both Netscape 4.x and MSIE 5.x on his machine. Yet I have tried Netscape, Mozillia, Chimera, iCab, MSIE, Opera, OmniWeb, and Safari on OS X and none of them have the printing behavior I need.