>thanks for the suggestion, i tried it and it did seem to process more reports in my scan loop but still gave me a vfp resource error... i've even gone onto the canon website and downloaded the most current printer driver for that printer in hopes that something changed... but no... also, unfortunately, we are stuck with win98 boxes for a while (management decision).

Try removing some fonts, and running the screen at a lower resolution - try 640x480 at 256 colors, and see if that improves things. If it does, fewer icons on the desktop, lower screen resolution and color depth, and fewer fonts and installed printers on the system ought to help free up the GDI resource allocation, and going to an NT/2K/XP system offers more GDI space to each process, giving a full 64K to each process instead of sharing 64K among all running processes in Win9x. You might also try changing the fonts in your reporets to fonts native to the printers that handle the reports - it shifts much of the overhead of page rendition from the Windows platform to the target device - Postscript printers are particularly useful here, and not using a printer like the HP 1100, which has no printer engine, which forces the GDI to handle complete rendition for the page rather than using on-board processing power - the "Windows Printers" are certainly cheap, but they eat the CPU and resources of the workstation, just like so-called "WinModems" that save a few dollars by having the PC directly process DSP rather than having an on-modem DSP chip.