>Howdy Nadya,
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>>That's cheating :)
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>>What if the report is sent to the printer by
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>>REPORT FORM myInvoice TO PRINTER PROMPT PREVIEW? and the user specifies the number of copies in the printer dialog?
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>What if I don't the invoice to the printer using that method? :)
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>And if you do use that method, you can call a UDF() from the report and set a variable if the first copy went towards the printer (from preview, as suggested elsewhere in this thread), and then send two more copies as I suggested.
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>>And moreover, two invoices were printed fine, but then printer got jammed and had to be restarted?
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>Yep, checking for those types of problems are difficult, and maybe impossible. I haven't seen anyone come up with a solution for that yet, besides asking the user if it printed okay.
Yes, seems like it's the most reliable solution :)
As for the other questions, see
my first reply in the thread :)
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