Larry,

Are you using any of the Line/Box objects on the report? If so VFP is generating a bitmap for that portion of the page. If you look in the temp folder while the job is printing what is the size of the files that show up? If it's several hundred K then the bitmap is at fault, because it just takes a long time to move the data down the wire to the printer. You can also browse the temp file and see if you see Esc*bNNNNbinary data hereW commands in the stream that is the bitmap raster data.

>I'm printing several reports of several pages each on an HP 4v (old printer)
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>Other documents print fine ( Word, Excel, etc )
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>But my VFP reports come out at a rate of about 1 page every 15 seconds...
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>any ideas what could cause this... the printer is local and shared