>But that's not the issue the original poster set up. He wants the user to preview 100 pages to find the couple of pages they really want to print out. That situation requires a data relevant selection criteria IMHO.

Reading the original post again, it doesn’t say that the user previews the report to (i.e. for the sole purpose of) select pages, it only says they want to print some pages from a previewed report.
Otherwise, I don’t think we disagree in our views on previews :).