Frontend Printing Using Access Method G - Properties

I am looking for some light on Frontend printing using access method G. I am using ERP 4.7 on Windows 2000 and SQL 2000. We are using access method G to print and when users get the pop up dialog to print, the properties and the cancel options are grayed out. The printers are already define in all of our SAP systems. We are using the latest Kernel 640 and patch level 247 as well as sapgui 7.10 with patch 15.
Thanks for your help in advance

Hi,
Check below link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_tm60/helpdata/en/42/dd174f02302cede10000000a1553f7/content.htm
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