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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01347937
Message ID:
01348213
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>>How do they know which printer they should print on? If you use SET PRINTER TO,
>>you need to make sure that the device information in TAG and TAG2 is cleared.
>
>I do not know what TAG and TAG2 are. Could you elaborate?
>
>

TAG and TAG2 are fields in your report if you open it as a table. You also need to check EXPR field (all of them for the first record). E.g.
use myReport.frx
browse

and examine Expr, TAG and TAG2.

>
>>In VFP 9 you can do this on the properties dialog for the report. If you rely on the
>>printer information stored in the report, ensure that the printers have exactly the
>>same name as they had before. If the name varies slightly, the report doesn't
>>find them and prints to the default printer.
>
>Already checked that. This report has run correctly on every PC I've tried EXCEPT these newly purchased ones. When I set the printer destination, I selected it in Properties/Page Layout/Page Setup/Printer. There was no variation in name.
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