Here's a link. It's a revised control from Microsoft that lets you use a CDC to print. It resolves issues with selecting the printer on the fly.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...322710/EN-US/?

SUMMARY
You can use the Vbprndlg.dll file instead of the Print dialog box portion of the Visual Basic CommonDialog control. This file exposes properties and provides functionality that the CommonDialog control does not.

The CommonDialog control in Visual Basic permits the Print dialog box to be displayed, but it does not give access to many of the properties that can be set in the Print dialog box and consumed by the Printer object. Because of alignment problems with structures (that is, user-defined types) when the Win32 application programming interface (API) functions are made from Visual Basic, you cannot reliably obtain additional information by using these API calls. As a workaround, this article provides a DLL that you can use instead of the Printer portion of the CommonDialog control.