Automated Printing

Hi All,
I have read numerous topics on this site regarding automated printing of documents. It basically boils down to finding the record you want, simulate clicking the print button and then send a ENTER command to the keyboard to click the OK Button on the print dialog.
Everything works perfectly, but up to the point where the print dialog opens. I have now moved the SendKeys.Send("") to the menu event that I catch on the print menu click (520), but the print dialog is still not open at this point in time. I've also tried using System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(X), but that doesn't help either.
Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Adele
PS: This development is on SBO 2004

Adele,
I am assuming that you already read this thread on this subject, but I just wanted to check.. I have not tried this, but the folks on this thread state that this works ...
Document printing SDK
HTH,
Eddy

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