>If you are absolutely positive that all users will be using the same printer, you can send printer codes directly to the printer with the ??? command. However, it might be better to see if you can set these commands into the EXPR field (the first record of the FRX) as you do with landscape/portrait mode.
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>Barbara
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>>After building a report in vfp6 that has to be dirrected to a certain tray on a network printer, some computers on the network can print the report and it sources from the correct tray. Others print to the same pritner and it sources from the wrong one. Is there a way to control issues like the paper source from within the code?
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>>John Dennis
Barbara:

Thanks for the response. I have a little experience hacking the .frx file, so my first thought was to go in and do exactly what you suggested. After looking at the first record in the .frx file, I found that the data for selecting the lower tray is already in the first record. We are implementing this app on a rather large network, and most of the stations print to the lower tray just like they are told to do. Be we have a couple of stations however, that consistently print to the upper tray. They are all running the same version of the exe, and the frx is compiled into the exe. I was hoping someone would have come up with a really good way to control things like paper source and orientation programmatically. Microsoft has a suggestion, but it requires a PHD in C ++ programming and a few other qualifications that I don't have time to pursue. I was reading about the printer codes approach. That may be my best option. Once again, thanks for you response.

John Dennis