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Changing destination printer doesn't work
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18/09/1998 10:57:38
 
 
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18/09/1998 10:55:10
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00138166
Message ID:
00138219
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21
>>>>>I'm trying to send a report to a printer different from the windows default printer. Nevertheless the report is always printed in the default printer.
>>>>>
>>>>>I've designed the report with "Printer 1" as the default. In the printers folder i've changed the default printer to "Printer 2". When i print the report always goes to "Printer 2".
>>>>>
>>>>>I've hacked the report frx and the fields "EXPR" ans "TAG" and "TAG2" have the code for the correct printer ("Printer 1").
>>>>>
>>>>>What am i doing wrong ? How can i make the report to go to "Printer 1" without using the "set printer to \\name..." command ?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks in advance....
>>>>
>>>>You should delete all lines from EXPR, TAG and TAG2 field (make a backup fisrt) After this, your report will use default Windows printer
>>>
>>>Thanks for your fast response, but what i want is not to use the default printer, but the previous defined.
>>>
>>>Can you help me with that.
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>
>>I know only one way to do it: open the report while you have proper printer selected in Control panel and then save the report.
>
>That's what i am doing, but is not working. After i save the report if i change the default printer and print that report he goes to the wrong printer.
>
>Thanks for your help on this.

It is really bad but in this case I always going to recreate the report from the scratch....
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