Mike,
There are ways to get information to the printer from inside VFP without using the report writer. But hopefully you can get the report engine to do the job for you...it seems there have been threads on this topic many times before, but I can't remember the end result.
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>>Zebra has several low-cost desktop label printers that handle several different label sizes. In VFP, you may not want to use the Report Writer since the printers have their own programming language to do things like print barcodes, rotate text, inverse text, print multiple copies, etc...
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>Thanks, I'll take a look at Zebra. I'm going to have to use VFP because the project is already written. Scope Creep...
Steve Gibson