Prompting for a Printer without Printing Report

[EddieN1]

I know I can use DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdPrint to prompt for a printer before printing a report, but I would like to prompt for a printer and just save the selected printer. Then I want to print the report 2 or more times to the selected printer without re-prompting for the printer between reports. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[June7]

The print dialog has option to indicate number of copies.

I don't know any way to save the printer ID selected by the print dialog.

Only alternatives I can imagine don't involve the print dialog.

[rpeare]

There may be a way to do this without involving the printer dialog at all have you tried using something like this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ice.10%29.aspx

where you should be able to retrieve a list of all printers (I didn't try the code)

then set your number of copies by having a text box with a value and just cycling through your print function by the number represented in that text box.

[June7]

I have used that code. It's what I was alluding to in my previous post.

The DoCmd.PrintOut method has an argument for number of copies.

[ItsMe]

FWIW

I have not tried the report properties before but, this example of application.printer demonstrates how to grab the default printer, change the printer temporarily, and then return the original default.
https://www.accessforums.net/reports...tml#post206023

[EddieN1]

ItsMe, thanks, that worked.