Custom print style to copy output file of report to desired dir

Hi All
We have a requirement to Copy output of Custom AR Invoice (BI Publisher) report to dir which is done vide print Style (Print MAchine) which copies file to desired dir
This functionality was used in 11i (Ver 11.5.10) and it's working fine, when we moved to R12 (Ver 12.1.3) Some how this functionality is not working as expected but
when we use this print style with other BI publisher reports it's working fine not sure what is the issue here.
Regards
Kamalakar.G

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