How to print a report on local/network printer(Sample Code)

Hi forms Gurus,
I'm looking for sample code witch allow to print report on local/network printer from Forms builder.
Plz help! it's very important.
TYAG.

Armand,
for Forms and Reports 9i, the only chance is to configure the printer as a network printer that is accessible to the Reports Server. In this case pass the printer's network name as desname and destype=printer as the Reports destination (e.g. desname=\network\printername destype=printer).
Alterantively, there exist an unsupported utility orarrp that you can get from the otn.oracle.com/products/forms web page.
Frank

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