Defaulting Parameter Form DESTYPE to Printer???

I am trying to run reports from forms with a parameter form (PARAMFORM=yes) and default the Destination Type parameter to Printer (DESTYPE=Printer) in the 10g environment. The problem when I do this is that the html code for the parmeter form is sent out to the printer. I just want the destype setting defaulted to printer so that once the user enters needed parameters and hits the submit button the report output goes to the printer. Does anyone know a way to do this??
It seems to me that the reports sever knows it is dealing with the html parameter form that it generated so I am puzzled that it sends this to the printer?? I would think that the destype, desname, desformat, etc.. of the report object would not apply to the html parmeter form itself but it certainly seems to. What am I missing here?
I realize I can set the destype to cache and then have the user select "Print" when they are ready but any time we add more mouse clicks for the end user it is a very big deal so that is NOT a good solution.
Wendell
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hi, pls try to set DESTYPE:= 'Printer' in after report trigger

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