Activating the printer.

[RAEsquivelC]

Hello, all.

I have this code, in VB:

Sub Private Sub Form_Load()
		
   Printer.Print, "This is line 1"		
   Printer.Print, "And, this is line 2"		

End Sub

When I run it, it sends the two lines to the printer, but, it only prints if:
1. I press the printer's manual PRINT key.
2. Or, if I end the sub by clicking the black square in VB's Menu bar
3. Or, if I end the sub by adding End before the End Sub

Adding the following line, just before the End sub, did NOT fix the problem:
Printer.Print , Chr(12) ' Form feed

How would I fix this so that I can tell the printer to print those two lines, other than by the above three methods?

Thanks for any help

Ralph

[szlamany]

printer.newpage - skips to a new page

and

printer.enddoc - closes the document and starting printing

formfeeds - chr(12) - are not what windows print drivers want for page ejecting...

[RAEsquivelC]

Thank you so much, Szlamany, for your quick and complete answer! That did it!