>>How would I go about saving a default printer for each report in VFP5a(without prompting on every print)? I have an exe residing on a network drive that many different users will be running on different PC's. My reports are in private datasessions. I have tried using the sys() function to set default then use set('Printer',2) to store the value, but they are different.
>>Basically, what is the best way to have it allow a user to select where each report is to print to once and not have to bother with it again.(And allow a different user to have different defaults)
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>>TIA
>>Bill
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>If all your printers are of the same (compatible) type, you could implement following:
>1. Your main app will actually REPORT FORM to FILE ... , creating these files in spearate folders (one for each printer).
>2. Another small server app will work on background checking for files and COPY FILE to particular printer (depending on folder).
>3. Each user will store/retrieve default folder paths in local config table.

Hi Ed,

Regarding number 2, what would be an example of the syntax for COPY FILE to a specific printer? If this is using REPORT FORM to FILE and not ASCII, this would work great for a setup of printing reports to files and then running nightly print routine for pending print jobs. TIA