>>I'm thinking since I gotta get this done tonight, to break it up into two strings and use the report summary for the second string with its built in page break.
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>Sounds like a good solution. Nothing like a little deadline to help one think of creative alternatives, right? Ed's reply is (as always) right on, too: you can send whatever control characters you want to when sending output directly to the printer. You can even send PCL control sequences this way, to control such things as page orientation, font, margins, etc. so just because you elect to go directly to the printer doesn't mean you're stuck with plain ASCII text.

Fortunately the plan was to limit these reports to two pages and using spliting into two strings and using the report footer worked out ok. If I could've had another day I'd spend it creating a word automation routine, but at least we got this working when needed.

-Isaac