Send report to multiple network printers [Resolved]

[brucevde]

I am using Crystal Reports 8.5 and the CRAXDRT.Report object.

We have a report that lists the daily orders for a specific department. There are about 50 departments and the department id is the report parameter. For each department we must generate the report everyday at 1:00am and it must print on the department's printer.

My problem is how do I specify a network printer? The Report.SelectPrinter method expects a drivername, printername and port. I would like to use a network path, ie Report.Printer = "\\PrinterServer\Dept4xPrinter". Otherwise I would need to add every printer to the computer where the report is executed.

Any ideas or help is appreciated?

[SkiNLaB]

well my logic says u cant expect your computer to print off to a printer it doesnt know. but then again i know nosink

[brucevde]

I was hoping it would work similar to a file server, where you can specify a UNC path to say open a file without having to map a drive to the network share.

[brucevde]

If anyone is interested, I fixed my problem.

I was trying to use the following VB code to send a report to a network printer (on NT). It did not work using Crystal version 8.5 via the CRAXDRT. I switched to the Crystal 8.0 object library (CRPEAuto) and it worked, go figure.

objReport.SelectPrinter "winspool","\\MyPrintServer\MyPrinter","NE00:"