>>>>You have to clear the fields specified AND do a SET PRINTER TO NAME (whatever).
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>>>>You can do a GETPRINTER() to see what the names should be in your code.
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>>>Thanks for the help, Fred. I am getting some different results now but there are still glitches. One change I made was to bind the value of the printer name to the first column of the array returned by APRINTERS() rather than the second column. Now if I have the physical LAN printer as my Windows default and select Acrobat as my application printer, that works fine. But now I can't print to the physical printer. I think possibly I am misusing APRINTERS(), which may explain at least part of my problem. Which column should I be binding to? FWIW here is what APRINTERS() returns -- note that the one physical printer (attached to another PC on the LAN) is in there twice.
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>>It's the first entry of each row:
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>>yourarray[x,1]
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>>>=APRINTERS(laPrinters)
>>>laPrinters[1,1] = "Auto hp officejet k series on DELLMIKE"
>>>laPrinters[1,2] = "\\DELLMIKE\hpoffice"
>>>laPrinters[2,1] = "Acrobat PDFWriter"
>>>laPrinters[2,2] = "LPT1:"
>>>laPrinters[3,1] = "\\DELLMIKE\hp officejet k series"
>>>laPrinters[3,2] = "DOT4_001"
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>>So that would be the "Auto hp officejet k series on DELLMIKE" or "Acrobat PDFWriter" or "\\DELLMIKE\hp officejet k series".
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>>If you're using the first one as an example, you would do:
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>>SET PRINTER TO NAME (laPrinters[1,1])
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>>The parenthesis are important!
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>>>When I go into my maintenance dialog, the third choice is grayed out / disabled.
>>>
>>>Also, now that TAG, TAG1, and EXPR are blanked in the first record of the FRX, my report is printing portrait. How can I change it back to the desired landscape orientation without dragging a printer name in with it?
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>>You'd have to leave only the ORIENTATION=1 part of the EXPR memo field.
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>OK, here is the latest. I thought it was fishy that there were two drivers for the same printer, so deleted both of them and then re-added the physical printer using the normal Add Printer dialog in Windows. Per your advice I am binding the first column of the APRINTERS() array to the printer name in my user table. I verified that what gets stored matches the first column values from APRINTERS().
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>Here are the values now returned by APRINTERS():
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>laPrinters[1,1] = "Acrobat PDFWriter"
>laPrinters[1,2] = "LPT1:"
>laPrinters[2,1] = "\\DELLMIKE\hp officejet k series"
>laPrinters[2,2] = "DOT4_001"
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>And here is what is happening now for each of the possible scenarios:
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>1. Windows default HP, flag says use Windows default, application default = HP --> prints to HP [RIGHT]
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>2. Windows default = HP, flag says use Windows default, application default = Acrobat --> prints to HP [RIGHT]
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>3. Windows default = HP, flag says use application default, application default = HP --> prints to HP [CANNOT TEST -- CANNOT CHOOSE "\\DELLMIKE\hp officejet k series" IN DIALOG LISTBOX -- ONLY THE FIRST SLASH APPEARS AND IT IS GRAYED OUT / DISABLED]
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>4. Windows default = HP, flag says use application default, application default = Acrobat --> prints to Acrobat [RIGHT]
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>5. Windows default = Acrobat, flag says use Windows default, application default = HP --> [CANNOT TEST BECAUSE CANNOT SELECT “\\DELLMIKE\hp officejet k series" IN DIALOG LISTBOX -- ONLY THE FIRST SLASH APPEARS AND IT IS GRAYED OUT / DISABLED]
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>6. Windows default = Acrobat, flag says use Windows default, application default = Acrobat --> prints to HP [WRONG]
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>7. Windows default = Acrobat, flag says use application default, application default = HP --> [CANNOT TEST BECAUSE CANNOT SELECT HP]
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>8. Windows default = Acrobat, flag says use application default, application default = Acrobat --> prints to Acrobat [RIGHT]
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>So I am down to two problems. One is not being able to select the HP printer because its name starts with a double slash. I vaguely remember dealing with this years ago but don’t remember how. Do you know? The other problem is #6, where the Windows default printer and the application default are both Acrobat but for some reason the report goes to the HP.
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>I will put ORIENTATION = 1 back into the EXPR field and hope that gets the report back in landscape orientation.
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>Thanks again to everyone who has been helping.

If you're trying to put this stuff into a listbox, the "\" will be problematic. I think you have to add 2 more "\\" to the front of it and an additional "\" in front of all the single slashes. The backslash is essentially an "escape" character, so inorder to see a "\", you need to double it up.

forget the above paragraph!

After actually checking it out < g> , all you need to do is add a space before the printer name with the "\\". Then you'd need to do SET PRINTER TO NAME (ALLTRIM(laPrinters[x,1])).

I have no idea why it would still print to the HP, unless you haven't cleared out the other memo fields besides EXPR on that first record.