I got me a tough one...Printer Device Names

[firemonke5]

ok down there is my code. PrintDialog is a sub that calls up the print dialog and grabs all the userinfo from it. I can get everything and set everythign just fine except for the printer name. It is returned as printmode.dmDeviceName and is returned correctly, i just cant seeem to be able to change the printer.devicename to that. If you need more clarification please contanct me!


On Error Resume Next
Dim i As Long
Dim result As String
PrintDialog
If printCancel = 0 Then
Exit Sub
End If
Printer.Orientation = printmode.dmOrientation
Printer.PrintQuality = printmode.dmPrintQuality
Printer.ColorMode = printmode.dmColor
Printer.Copies = printmode.dmCopies
Printer.PaperSize = printmode.dmPaperSize
Printer.ScaleLeft = -0.5 * 1440
Printer.ScaleTop = -0.5 * 1440
Printer.CurrentX = 0
Printer.CurrentY = 0
For i = 0 To lstResults.ListCount - 1
result = i & " " & lstResults.List(i)
Printer.Print result
Next
Printer.EndDoc

[rcallan]

You need to declare a Printer object variable and use the Set statement:

Dim MyPrinter as Printer

Set MyPrinter = Printer.DeviceName

This changes the default printer to whatever is contained in Printer.DeviceName then you can change all the properties of the MyPrinter variable to your liking i.e. MyPrinter.Copies = 2 etc.

Hope this helps.
Rob