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Need to print to use 2 printers simultaneously
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From
31/03/2000 15:00:48
Ed Rauh
Trumbull, Connecticut, United States
 
 
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31/03/2000 14:37:46
Larry Moody
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Title:
Re: Need to print to use 2 printers simultaneously
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00353547
Message ID:
00353569
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15
>Hi,
>
>I need to have all of the user-selected reports print to an HP on LPT1 while a running log prints activity to a dot matrix attached to LPT2. So I'm thinking I'll "SET PRINTER TO LPT2" then print the line, then "SET PRINTER TO LPT1"...
>
>Sound like that'll work?
>
>Any "gotchas" I should be aware of?

Yep - each separate "SET PRINTER" terminates the previous printed output session as I remember - you'll end up with lots of one-line outputs....each on a new page.
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