An update to my issue:

First of all, to reproduce, you can do this: Pause your printer (no need to waste paper). Create a basic report with one line that says "Test". Print, select 50 copies. Look in the print queue - 1 print job of 50 pages. Now go into Wordpad, type in "Test", print 50 copies - 1 print job of 1 page! The problem is NOT fixed in 8.5.

This is a serious issue as it slows printing to ANY kind of printing and makes worng with a barcode label printer downright impossible. The response from Crystal Decisions - it's fixed in the next release. Seeing as how there have been 2 or 3 major releases plus updates since this issue was first raised, I'm not holding my breath. Anyone with more insight into Crystal Decisions have a more deinite answer? Failing to correct this, my client will have to dump Crystal for some other label creation program that hopefully has decent Active-X automation. Native VFP reports are out of the question - this has to be extremely end-user friendly, and the creation person already knows Crystal pretty well.

Help!


Randy