Scheduled Report Output to Printer

Hi Guys,
hope you are all well.
Can someone help me. I am have created a report and set this to be schedule at X time. I need the report output via Business Objects XI to be to Printer.
I have set up a printer and set it as a shared printer on the same server BO runs on. I have also set the printer to Default. When I schedule the report and set the Print Settings to Default Printer it does not print...no error messages...but no print. Helppppp as I am going mad.
Many thanks

We just recently migrated to XI R2 on a new server, and did not consider the print settings...until a user noticed they could not print like normal
We recreated the printers on the new server, and people could then choose a specific printer now. (We named the printers the same as the print ID on the server.)
However, people could not choose Default Printer in Infoview (during Schedule). When they chose it, the report would be successful, but we were not sure where the output would go.
I found a few articles on Knowledge base, and I think #1 and #2 may be our best alternatives.
1202786 - A Crystal report printed through InfoView does not use the default printer on the client computer
1203768 - The default printer is not chosen when printing from Infoview
This last one seems little drastic - all scheduled reports on a jobs server would take the behavior of the job server. This seems excessive.
1217095 - Report does not print when scheduled to printer in Crystal Enterprise or BusinessObjects Enterprise
Article #1 &2 will require retooling of the rpt files, but we plan to address the user issues on a per report basis.
Walter

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