HOWTO: Use the Default Windows Printer in Visual FoxPro

ID: Q138396

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 5.0, 6.0

SUMMARY

The Report Writer in Visual FoxPro saves specific printer settings in the .frx file. Sometimes, a user may want the report to always print to the default Windows printer.

MORE INFORMATION

The following steps will remove specific printer settings from the report file:

Open the report as a table:
```
   USE MYREPORT.FRX 
```

Locate the record that holds the printer information:
```
   LOCATE FOR Objtype = 1 AND Objcode = 53 
```

Remove the printer settings:


   REPLACE Tag  WITH ""
   REPLACE Tag2 WITH ""
   REPLACE Expr WITH ""

Close the report table:
```
   USE 
```

At this point, the printer settings have been removed, and REPORT FORM will always print to the default Windows printer.

REFERENCES

For more information about controlling the printer for a report, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q133163 HOWTO: Control Printer Attributes for a Report at Run Time

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbPrinting kbReportWriter kbVFp300 kbVFp500 kbVFp600
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Issue type : kbhowto