Minimizing print time

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On large reports that open in Print Preview, it seems to take as long to
print AFTER the preview as it does to generate the preview. Is this normal,
and is there any way to speed up the printing?
 
It's normal since the report basically closes and re-opens in print mode.
One possible solution is to send the report to SnapShot format to preview.
You can then just print the SnapShot file.
 
That sounds good. Is there any trick to printing the SnapShot, and is there
a down side to doing this?

These particular reports are very complex, and my client is running them on
an aging Windows 2000 terminal server, so it would really impress him if I
could speed things up somehow.
 
I don't believe you can use a Where clause when sending the report to a
Snapshot. The easiest way to write this code is to create a macro to output
the report. Then convert the macro to code.
 
Thanks, Duane. I guess I will just have to live with the issue, though,
because these particular reports are highly paramaterized (long Where
clauses). While I usually like to insert the preview before the print, I
added separate print & print preview buttons on the form from which the
reports are called so that the user can bypass the preview for known long
reports.
 
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