>The printer prints any document (e.g. Word Doc) into an image in the format of TIF. Before it prints, it looks for a file name in the WIN.INI file. And the file name has to be in short path and short name.
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>We do have the latest printer driver.
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>I want the printer to create the file in TIF image format. I will not be creating the file.

So, which file is it this issue is concerned with? The document to print? I expect not, because the code George and I have provided will work. I assume it is the tiff you want the printer driver to create? Why can't you simply just use short file names?