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 Changing Default Printer From Access Via Code - 5/23/2001 3:24:16 AM   
  israelda

 

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Can anyone shed any light on the best way to go about retrieving and setting the default printer in Win2000 from VBA? In win95/98 you could do it via Win.Ini but this is no longer it seems
 
 
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 Re: Changing Default Printer From Access Via Code - 5/23/2001 3:26:23 AM   
  winkumpel

 

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In VBSCRIPT, it's pretty easy. You should be able to use something like this.

Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
WshNetwork.AddPrinterConnection "LPT1:", "\\Server\Print1"
WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\Server\Print1"

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