Tracy,
thanks for the reply. PRINTSTATUS(), according to the VFP, does not work with Windows printers:

In Visual FoxPro, PRINTSTATUS( ) always returns true (.T.) if the printer is connected through the Windows Control Panel.

Am I wrong here?

John.


>John, this is what we use BEFORE we initiate the print job:
>
>

>	IF !PRINTSTATUS()
>		SET PRINT TO
>		SET DEVICE TO SCREEN
>		=okay("Printer is not ready.",7,0,'PORT: '+port)
>		xreturn = .F.
>	ENDIF
>

>
>Does this not work for you? After this, when the print job is initiated, we trap for the general printing errors in our errortrap program.