Hi Ken,

sorry to inform you that I can't give you so much more help. Your error line = 0 may mean that the error is caused by some external program, like a printer driver, but I am not sure. Have you tried to print to another printer or to a file?

>ok so the bad news is that pointing directly to the printer ip and using a different updated printer driver did not help.
>
>could it be the setting of the shape to visible or invisible?
>
>also how can I trap the error or get the actual line it happens at? I've been non buffered writing a number out to a log file to try to track it down but it tends to move a bit (it seems) not much just over a few lines.
>
>the fox error says -
> fatal error: exception code=c0000005
> called from mainform.printjobbag line 0 {innt\system32\vfp6r.dll}
> called from bla line 0
> called from bla line 0
>
>Why always line 0 ?? darn thing, it's NOT line 0 !!
>
>again here somewhere
>
> fputs(as_plog,alltrim(thisjobid) + " " + "PRINT 1")
> oworkbook.activesheet.Shapes(8).visible = .F.
> oworkbook.activesheet.Shapes(7).visible = .F.
> oworkbook.activesheet.Shapes(6).visible = .F.
> oworkbook.activesheet.Shapes(5).visible = .F.
> fputs(as_plog,alltrim(thisjobid) + " " + "PRINT 1.1")
> oworkbook.activesheet.printout(1,,1)
> fputs(as_plog,alltrim(thisjobid) + " " + "PRINT 1.2")
> oworkbook.activesheet.Shapes(8).visible = .T.
> oworkbook.activesheet.Shapes(7).visible = .T.
> oworkbook.activesheet.Shapes(6).visible = .T.
> oworkbook.activesheet.Shapes(5).visible = .T.
> oworkbook.activesheet.printout(1,,2)
>
>sometimes it gets to just 1 sometimes 1.1 and most of the time it works all the way, just fails 1 in 20 perhaps, but for a server based program thats designed to just process jobs and does NOT want to be task managered and restarted, 1 in 20 is very poor.
>
>thanks again
>Ken.