Help! I can't print from an executable.

I've written a vi which prints a barcode to a small brother label printer and compiled it into an executable. Both the exe and vi print when the printer is connected to my computer, but when I move it to the target machine it won't print. The program seems to run fine, but nothing happens when I send the print command, nothing appears in the print manager. There are three printers connected to this machine (2 local and one network), and I can't print to any of them using a labview executable, but can using other programs (microsoft word). Using the "queary available printers" function, all three printers show up. Any ideas why I can't get anything to actually print out? Is there a source file I need to add when building an executable?
Both computers are running windows XP service pack 2. I am using Labview 8.5, third quarter 2007.
Thanks,
Philip.

Sorry I wasn't very clear in my original question. My goal is to print from an executable on a computer which does not have Labview 8.5 installed (It does have the runtime engine installed). The printer is connected locally to this machine and I'm trying to print three lines of text by creating a new report, printing it, then closing it, all using the report generation tools.
I'm desiginating the printer by just using a text control wired to the printer name input of the print report vi. I havn't wired the output of the queary printers to the print report vi, but I have copied and pasted this text manually to make sure the name was right.
How do I build a debuggable exe to check for errors? This sounds useful!
I have found a work around for this problem, which was to create an installer for the executable and include every single additional installer. I'm not sure which one it needed, but my executable worked after this was installed.
Do you have any idea which additional installer was needed as creating a 1 gig install file and installing this on multiple machines takes a lot of time!
Thanks for your help,
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