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"Nick B. Cassos" wrote:

> For local printers, you can specify LPTx or COMx as the filename. For
> network printers you can specify the "\\Server\Share" syntax. For this
> to be valid, a share has to be made in the "Server", but, the nice
> thing is that it is irrelevant what printer driver there is actually
> installed. For example, in one of my installations I use a SiteCom
> rooter/printer server combo - connected to a laser and a switch hub -
> which is accessed from all computers indirectly through a TTY shared
> driver installed in the fileserver. In my app, I enter
> "\\Server\Generic" as the path and all invoices find their way out to
> the printer server.

Excellent tip, thank you <g>

Unfortunately, I can't seem to extract the Printer Share Names from our
environment.

I tried the GetPrinter WinAPI, but all printers come back with an empty
share name.

This was supposed to be a quick-and-dirty print solution for us, but in
favour of pragmatism (and time pressure!) I will revert to the existing
system : Export to .CSV and let them format their own report in Excel ;�
)

I'll be taking another look in a few weeks though, this looks far too
useful to just pass over.

Thanks again
-- 
AlisdairM
Team Thai Kingdom