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Eject After Print (NOT!)
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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
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00295826
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>Thanx... I have already tried this method and a few others by creating ASCII files and putting them together...but I was hoping that somewhere buried in the documentation is the _printquitejectingandpissingmeoff flag that could be set.

No, as long as you exploit Windows printer tools, the Windows spooler steps in and controls the printer, including the cleanup of the printer state, which generally includes a page feed. If you use the Generic/Text Only Windows printer type, you can suppress resetting the printer state, but you end up having to lose all the Windows printer capabilities (like support for non-native/scalable fonts).

Your problem is the use of Windows printer tools...and the lack of detailed control of what Windows does to support hardware independence and the ability to send stuff safely to the printer without worrying about the printer being in a known, safe state. If you let Windows get involved in handling the printer, in order to do it's magic for each job, it has to start up in a known page location, with the printer in a known state...
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