Report output to PRINTER

I posted this in Application server forums. I didn't get any resolution for this.
We migrated forms 6i application to 10g. Our apllication has three options for the report output.
1. Output to preview
2. Output directly to printer
3. Output to file.
I have couple of questions regarding the output to printer and file.
1. Right now the application server uses the unix printer commands in /usr/bin to print. We need to print the report output from the application server with the printer commands in /opt/cups/bin instead of /usr/bin.
How to do this?
2. If the report output destination is set to FILE. Then the server generates and store the ouput in the default directory /exports/../.../../. How do I change the default destination location.
Thanks,
Vijay.

Hello,
1) Since, 9.0.2, Reports uses the script rwlpr.sh (OH/bin) to send the ouput to a printer when DESTYPE=PRINTER. If you want to change the executable used to print, modify this script
2) When DESTYPE=FILE, it is possible to specify a "full path name " in DESNAME
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