Des,

>Thanks for reply mate, but im still in trouble. Ihave tried all new EPSON printers (480,580,680 etc.) with same locking problem while EPSON 66,760,870 do not (older printer) same goes for older HPs not a problem. Is it something to do with WIN89 - new genre of prinetrs and VP6.
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>yours gratefully
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>des twomey

Well, I'd try using an older driver just to get things going. Here's something you can try.. Presuming you get an older driver to work... With the SET("printer",2) command you can determine what is the default Windows printer. Add that to the APRINTERS(aSomeArrayName) command and you could do the following:

1. Determine & store current Windows Printer name.
2. Issue the APRINTERS command, scan the array for a working (tested) driver).
3. If you find it issue a SET PRINTER NAME TO command to activate the working driver programatically.
4. Run your report(s).
5. Issue a second SET PRINTER NAME TO command, resetting the driver to the original one.

It all rides on whether or not you can find any driver at all that will work. Perhaps a generic Windows driver?

Hope this helps...