In my case I need to use VFP5 for this report. (That's what the company has and this program has been basically maintenance free until this employee's default printer changed - no, I can't change him back)

Rick
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>Which version of VFP? If you have VFP9 (or VFP8), you can uncheck Save printer environment (Tools->options->Reports. Now VFP will stop populating these fields with workstation specific information.
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>>I apologize for what I know has been answered before, but my firewall won't allow me to perform a search (it won't allow certain pieces of information to be sent out, which UT uses as part of it's search validation)
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>>In the .FRX files there are 3 fields that contain information in record 1 about what printer the report was designed in/for...
>>EXPR, TAG, TAG2
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>>What do I need to strip out to make the report not have printer specific information?
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>>We set up our network printers such that each tray of a printer is treated as a different printer. So if this printer (hardware) has 3 trays, then it is represented was 3 different printers. One only knows about tray 1, another only knows about tray 2, and the 3rd only knows about tray 3.
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>>My user has his default printer set to tray 3 of printer "X"
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>>I have a report which when being previewed, if the print icon is clicked, the report tries to print to the right printer (hardware), but to tray 1... however, if the user clicks MY print button, which does a
>>REPORT FORM _____ TO PRINTER NOCONSOLE PROMPT
>>The Windows Printer dialog box defaults to the correct logical printer and tray... and if the user prints to that printer and tray, then it prints as it's supposed to print.
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>>The printer information in the FRX record one is for a different logical "printer", of the same brand and model (HP 4000tn)... just because that's the printer I had as my default when I created the report.
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>>I suspect that's why the icon is printing to the wrong tray... because it's getting confused...
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>>TIA,
>>Rick Liebespach