microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion

James Tyler

3/19/2011 4:15:00 PM

I did something like that in VB6. You certainly can "Set Printer = p" after
finding p by looping thru the local definition of printers.


"John Simpson" <jasimp.nospam@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> The environment is VB6, Windows XP and Windows 7 workstations.
>
> I writing an application that requires a few workstations to print a
> report (using the printer object) to a network printer. The printer
> that will be used is installed on the server, but not on any of the
> workstations, so I don't think I can set the device name using the 'for
> each p in VB.Printers' code. I would rather not have to install the
> printer on each workstation.
>
> My thought is to use the OpenPrinter API. My question is: will this
> work with the printer object or is there a better solution.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> John
>