Default Printer Retained In Report

I have a report that was designed in Crystal Reports on a development workstation and configured to use the system default printer. When this report is moved to the shared production server and accessed by a user on another workstation through a 3rd party app, the report defaults to the original printer instead of that workstation's default system printer even though the printer it defaults to is not configured on that workstation. I have not been able to find a setting in Crystal that says preserve the default printer setting.
Any ideas appreciated.
Fuskie
Whose user is extremely frustated by this as it only seems to happen on some reports and not others, though he cannot find any difference between the ones that do and the ones that don't...

Hi Fuskie,
You'll have to check with the third party app developer but the only option in CR would be to open the report up and possibly check on the option to No Default printer. But need to know what version of CR you and the third party app are using?
Thank you
Don

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