>>>I want to run a report that has a printer set up in the page set up dialog
>>>
>>>However, I want to run the report on a different printer and the report should ignore the setting in the page set up dialog.
>>>
>>>I want to set the printer to what the user chooses and then I would print a few different reports all to the same printer that the user chose before, ignoring the printer that is set in the page set up. Sorry for being repititios, I wanted to be clear.
>>
>>VFP reports give problems if they are designed for one printer, and printed on another one. You should clear the corresponding fields in the report; the easiest way to do this is to get the XDIR download, from the downloads section.
>>
>>To select a printer, use the getprinter() function. The steps are more or less like this (quoted from my unreliable memory!):
>>
>>

>>local lcPrinter
>>lcPrinter = GetPrinter()
>>if not empty(lcPrinter) && if empty, user pressed ESC.
>>  set printer to &lcPrinter
>>  report form ...
>>endif
>>

>
>It should be SET PRINTER TO NAME and there's no reason to use macro substitution in this case.

I think there is ;
It is one or the other.

set printer to name &lcPrinter

* or 

set printer to name (lcPrinter)
***Personally I always used this one.

Doing just ;

set printer to name lcPrinter

results in 'Error accessing printer spooler'
at least with VFP6/sp5.


I did not try this with VFP9.