Hector and Cindy,

Thanks for your comments. They made me take a second and third look at my code. I had used the following code to set the printer to a non-default printer where vcPrinterName contains a valid printer name

vcPrinterName = "NAME " + vcPrinterName
set printer to (vcPrinterName)

This was in error because I was trying to use expression evaluation on the string. It would probably have worked if I had used macro expansion via

set printer to &vcPrinterName

However, because I am trying to avoid macro expansion, I am now using the following

set printer to name (vcPrinterName)

Everything seems to be working as desired now as long as I clear out the TAG and TAG2 fields of my reports. Thanks for all your help.

Larry

>Larry,
>
>I think that the answer is in the SET PRINTER TO NAME \\ServerName\PrinterName command. I just tried printing a dummy report to a real printer and to a PDF file with the following commands and it did work:
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>set printer to name \\hcorrea2\canon
>set printer to name \\hcorrea2\pdfdriver
>