Is there anyway to suppress a layout when printing so it is not displayed?

 

I have a menu that drops down to print several reports, essentially the script for the reports does the following

Go to Layout["JPF_printitems1"(Locator)]

Sort Records -Restore;No Dialog]

Print []

Go to Layout ["JPF_printreports" (Locator)]

 

The report does go to the layout but the user does not need to see the layout, I would prefer to simply "Show Custom Dialog" + with dialog message like "Please while printing" and have it print with no dialog which is  easily done, but I don't seem to find a way to prevent the layout with fields from showing on screen, if possible.  Just looking for a more elegant way to print, as when they print the report

Not really if you want to keep the print dialog up.  One option would be to silently print to PDF and then open the PDF.  The user can print from there.

Is there anyway to suppress a layout when printing so it is not displayed?

 

Go to Layout["JPF_printitems1"(Locator)]

Sort Records -Restore;No Dialog]

Print []

Go to Layout ["JPF_printreports" (Locator)]

 

Have you tried using the  freeze window  script step?