>Claude, excusez moi for bringing this older subject back, but can you suggest a way to do this and still preserve at least the orientation of the report ?. I have tried to blank TAG,TAG2, and a combination of parameters in EXPR, but nothing works.
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>Merci beaucoup.

Hi Furio,
I'm not on the Thread often these days so excuse the delay of my reply.

This is what I do:
clear everything in TAG and TAG2 fields of the first record,
keep only desired parameters in EXPR field.

In my case, when I look at EXPR field I see something like:

 DRIVER=winspool
 DEVICE=\\MTRLPQBH107\HP LaserJet 5Si 2-100
 OUTPUT=Ne01:
 ORIENTATION=0
 PAPERSIZE=1
 SCALE=100
 COPIES=1
 DEFAULTSOURCE=15
 PRINTQUALITY=600
 DUPLEX=1
 TTOPTION=3

From what I tried these are the settings that are used at run time even if the user selects a different printer.

For reports in portrait orientation I leave EXPR field blank. (Maybe I should force it to ORIENTATION=0)
For reports in landscape orientation I put ORIENTATION=1

Everytime you open and save a report with the report designer you must be careful to repeat these operations because it saves also your default printer settings in the EXPR field.

To ease the process I wrote a little program to reset the setting I want for each report files of my project.

 USE MyReportLandsape.FRX
 BLANK FIELDS EXPR,TAG,TAG2
 REPLACE EXPR WITH "ORIENTATION=1"

 USE MyReport.FRX
 BLANK FIELDS EXPR,TAG,TAG2
...

Good luck!
Claude