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change default printer at runtime with no user prompts

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loreglor

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May 25, 2008
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We're using Baan ERP on a linux server, Crystal Reports 9 as the reporting solution. We need sometimes to print directly the same report to different printers. We wouldn't like to duplicate the report to assign two different default printers in Printer Setup. Is there a way to do it easy as using url commands?
Thank you
 
You can code an application using the Crystal runtime components to do this, or consider a 3rd-party tool (see list at:
There's at least one Crystal Reports viewer among those listed at the site above that accepts command line arguments that print the specified report to the specified printer(s).

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view, email, export, burst, distribute, and schedule Crystal Reports.
 
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