>ITS NOT NT I USE THE SAME COMMAND IN NT 4 AND IT WORKS FINE.. CHECK TO SEE IF YOUR PRINTER DRIVER IS INSTALLED PROPERLY. TRY PRINT TEST PAGE TO SEE IF YOUR PRINTER IS SET UP PROPERLY

With or withou a GETPRINTER() anywhere in the mix?

Yep the printer runs fine on all other software ... and if you have run a getprinter() anywhere during the session, appears to behave fine as well.

About the only thing left to try me thinks, is cleaning out the expr field in the report entirely...

go figure.