>>I can't believe that with all the hype over the improvements in the report writer that no one mentioned this horrific slowdown. This is NOT what VFP built its reputation on and will certainly detract from the benefits the 90 behavior provides.
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>>I'm going to post a link to the zip file on our website for others to download and test.
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>I replied on the Wiki but just to re-iterate - I find the same as Cathy - your test shows that the 90 setting prints the report 3 times faster than the 80 setting. You must have something about your environment that is causing your slow printing.
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>I have a 30-odd page report that is printed many times every day and is running with no slowdown with SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 90. My users would have murdered me by now if it was running slower.

Here is the reason you are not getting the same results we are. We are printing using an LPT cable to a printer connected directly to our computer.

Here are some updated stats when printing a 250 page report...

Printer Connection - Version - time to render - time to print

LPT - 90 = 284.469 seconds - approx 2+ hours to print
LPT - 80 = .901 seconds - depends on speed of printer (note on mine at 35 ppm, about 7 minutes)

NETWORK PRINTER - 90 - 49.041 seconds - depends on speed of printer (but no delay in processing the print job)
NETWORK PRINTER - 80 - 1.762 seconds - depends on speed of printer (but no delay in processing the print job)

(this is printing to a shared printer attached by LPT cable to a computer in the workgroup)
WORKGROUP PRINTER - 90 - 520.218 seconds - depends on spped of printer (but no delay in processing the print job)
WORKGROUP PRINTER - 80 - 2.323 seconds - depends on spped of printer (but no delay in processing the print job)

So this becomes an issue ONLY when printing through an LPT cable to a local printer. I'm not sure about anyone else, but most of our customers use this setup rather than the network printer.