>Hi,
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>We work with different types of printer(laser, dot matrix, ink jet) and pre-printed custom forms (checks, govern.. forms, invoice ..).
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>When I installed a customer, I have to create a printer for different type of forms.
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>Exemple with dot matrix (most customer).
>1. Default setting for regular reports
>2. Custom paper with no margin (invoice or check)
>3. Legal US municipal tax form with no margin
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>So if 5 printers(1 local/4 shared) is configured on a machine I get 15 choices of printers for Word, Excel ... but our application will only show the 5 custom printers in a combobox of printer because I check the paper type with PRTINFO(2,lcPrinter) = 256 or 5(legal US). Then I go to the next station and it all over again. After I'm gone, I only hope that some user don't change the setup has it was done one time.
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>This method is working for now but soon I will have to installed more than 100 clients.
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>My questions are:
>Can I programmaticaly add a printer (like Winfax)? If yes, does it work with 95,98,ME and NT/2000?
>Can I programmaticaly change the default setting of a printer(put custom paper, Legal US, set margin)?
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>Ideally , I will make a simple form and will check what each printer installed will be capable of doing. eg no custom form for Laser.
>I want to minimize the time to setup a client. Installing the programis simple but it's the time to configuring all the printers that is very long.
>We are trying to convert them to regular paper but there are official documents(check, municipal tax form) that can't be change.All other form were converted to regular paper to give them a way out when then run off of their old pre-printed custom form( invoice)
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>Thank in advance for your answers.
>
>Steve

I'm not so sure you can do it through Foxpro, but take a look at the windows script host. That should be able to do alot of that for you.