>A customer tells me that very often they find that their printer is offline. They then have to press on the Reset button on the printer and bunch of reports are printed. Can VFP report cause the printer to do that? (that is, to go off line)

You may check this thread PrintStatus() always returns .T. Thread #1204202 Message #1204202 for some approaches to the problem, but without 100% reliable solution, AFAIK.