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And also in addition to above this is from FM7 Help under 'Print Script Step' "Select Specify print options or click Specify to open the Print dialog box and set generic printing options including the printer , number of copies, and the pages to print. You can also set FileMaker Pro printing options such as printing the current record, printing records being browsed, or printing a blank record.

In addition to the above it is strange that the printers actually do change when the script runs opening dialog boxes (even though no changes are actually made by the user) and they don't when run in 'silent' mode.

I too have checked out Productive Computing's web site and read the same thing you did Mike. As far as Filemaker claiming that FM7 in Windows doesn't change printers why then did they put this in the user manual? "If you regularly print a particular layout to a different printer or with different paper options

( I think this a well worn topic and I thought I was on top of it but ...) I want to be able to print to different printer drivers - a fax program and PDF printer. I understood that now in FM7 it is possible to set the Print Setup paramaters, including the printer, in the Print Setup script step. I have created the following test script: Go to Layout ["whatever"] Print Setup [Restore; No dialog] 'use printer B Print [] Print Setup [Restore; No dialog] 'use printer C Print [] Before running this script I set the filemaker printer to printer A, However the windows default printer is D. When this script runs the first Print Setup script step the printer is set to B and then the print dialog opens (the print script steps have the 'Perform without dialog' unchecked) I click OK and the layout prints to B. Next the second Print Setup script step sets the printer to C and then the print dialog opens. I click OK and layout prints to C. Even when I check the printer setup or print command from the FileMenu the printer is set on C. Sounds good so far. However when I alter the script to make the Print steps happen without a dialog box so there is no user intervention (even though previously I did not intervene except to press Ok) the script prints the layout twice but now it does so to printer D (the windows default) Now when I check the printer setup or print command from the FileMenu the printer is again ( or may be still) set on C but C was not used. Have I missed something? Has anyone come across someting like this? Or do we still need a plugin for this? (One plugin site says we don't) Tim