>>I've just run into some code in a client's application that sends a formatted string (the concatenation of multiple reports and documents) directly to a printer using ???. The process has worked without modification for over 20 years and the client is not willing to give the functionality since it is an integral part of their business. Lately, under certain conditions only the first page of output will be printed. I guess I'm surprised that it still works at all. However...what is a good replacement for "???" in this situation? Obviously, we need to bypass the printer driver.
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>Hilmar has a download#9991 which I believe can help in this sort of situation (haven't used it myself).

That one still uses "???" for the final output. What my class does is simplify the generation of the text-file that is to be printed - with a detail method that gets called once for each record, groupheader and groupfooter methods that get called every time the break expressions change, etc. - and where the programmer "plugs in" the commands to generate the text.