George,
this was a misunderstanding from my side with that "build-in" class.

CommonDlg is something I never understand how to use it.
It is simple on a first try, but then I figured out that it change may windows default printer.
This is cruel, I only like to change for the next printout, maybe as long as I stay inside my app. (The way let's say MSWord would work)

So I was looking around and found

.PrinterDefault = .F.

But this switches the CommonDlg use off. Simply nothing is happend after the change of a printer in ShowPrinter(), VFP uses the same printer as before.

AFAIK CommonDlg provides a kind of handle to the printer, but I have no idea how to use this to switch printer in foxpro.

BTW, it looks like Ajay runs in the same problem, look at thread#650272.

Agnes