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I am writing an application which will process data over night. When it's finished a report is printed out. I am wanting the report to be printed to 3 different printers on the same network. Is it possible to do this?

All three printers are installed on the pc.

Thanks in advance
PG

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Have you played with the internal printer object, or printer collection? What you can do, is set the printer to a different index of the printer collection (behaves more like an array). An example would be:

' /* Set The Printer To the First Printer In the OS */
Set Printer = Printers(0)

' /* Code To Print The Document */
Printer.Print "change this to something to print your document"

' /* Set The Printer To the Second Printer In the OS */
Set Printer = Printers(1)

' /* Code To Print The Document */
Printer.Print "change this to something to print your document"

' /* Set The Printer To the Third Printer In the OS */
Set Printer = Printers(2)

' /* Code To Print The Document */
Printer.Print "change this to something to print your document"

The above code should print the line: change this to something to print your document to 3 different printers on the system (0, 1, 2). So all you have to do to change the printer is set Printer to whichever index of the printers array (collection).

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Thanks, This has been a great help.

Cheers
PG :cheesy:

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I have fought with the printer object for several years and this is the first simple method I have seen. Thanks so much!
Merry Christmas,
Jim

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