REP-0826: Invalid printer driver 'dflt' specified by parameter DESFORMA

We are using Developer 6. We had .PS Reports that printed fine till yesterday. Since this morning, we are getting the following error:
REP-0826: Invalid printer driver 'dflt' specified by parameter DESFORMAT.
What could be wrong?

Hi,
restart the reports process.
If this doesn´t help restart the whole machine including the whole operating system.
We do relativly often have this problem that the Oracle Reports processes function a long time (over months and more) without problems and then suddenly something does not work anmymore.
Simply restart the whole machine and in most cases everything will work again.
regards

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My OS System disk wasn't set as the C-drive (how or why I'm not sure, but I have several OS installations and 2 hard-drives and must be a result of the way I installed these). And so I had no C-drive at all (except when I plugged in USB Pen's they would appear as C-drive).
iTunes wouldn't let me install unless I had a C-drive - probably said I had an invalid C-drive or something. So I tried creating a virtual C-drive by mapping the C: drive letter to a new empty folder on my system disk (G-drive) to "C:". See - http://ask-leo.com/i_have_no_c_drive_but_some_programs_insist_on_it_what_can_i_d o.html
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For your situation, you can short the path for the source code. Or use a short path for build agent folder in your build definition. You can refer to the links below to solve your problem:
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I cannot get my MacBook Pro to print greyscale on my Canon MG6450. I cannot access the printer driver panel on the Macbook. So I am stuck printing everything in colour and cannot specify which pages I want printed.

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Hi All,
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Printer Command Language [Wikipedia]
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Thank you for the responceq Johny_07, unfortunately it solves the problem only if I have to specify the size of the media, but I need to specify the source tray, paper type and so on, parameters that are not present in the dialog box, and those are not remembered by Illustrator also. Do you experience that problem, I have allways wondered why there is no info concerning that problem, is it happening only with my instalations or it is a general program bug.

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Anybody knows how to find the driver for the above quoted printer and operating sysgtem?
Thank you!

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