>I tried clearing TAG, TAG2, and EXPR in the first record of the FRX. This did not change the behavior; everything still prints to the physical printer. In addition, the report I am testing with changed from landscape mode to portrait mode, which means some columns get chopped off. When I set it to landscape again in the Print Setup dialog, the printer name gets pulled back into the TAG field.

Each time you save the report, it will put the TAG, TAG2, and EXPR fields back into the report. In VFP 8 you can tell it to quit doing this but if you're using a version prior to 8 you have to remember to do this each time.

When you strip the EXPR field are you clearing the whole field or just certain lines in the memo field? Be sure that you only remove certain printer-specific lines from this field and not the whole thing. The Landscape/Portrait setting is stored in the Orientation line in the EXPR field.