Hi Nancy,
PMFJI, but if the printer is not set up to spool print jobs but to send directly to the printer, I have seen this lock up Foxpro programs, at least it would in FPW 2.6. I would think that sending to the print spooler, VFP should not even need to know if the printer is even there. However, I know that many people want confirmation that a report sent to the printer actually printed but I don't think that is possible with Windows.

Elmer

>George-
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>>Even Windows doesn't know the status of a printer. That's for the driver to handle.
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>Thanks for confirming. I hesitated to make such a definitive statement in an area not my specialty.
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>What I'm not quite seeing is how the printer being unavailable is locking up fox programs, but it's probably just a failure of my imagination.