Printing issue

[svn]

I want my program to open a word document and print it to the defulat printer without showing the printer box of commondialog. How should i do that? Right now i have:

Private Sub Print_Click()
CommonDialog1.Flags = cdlPDReturnDC + cdlPDNoPageNums
If choices.RTB1.SelLength = 0 Then
CommonDialog1.Flags = CommonDialog1.Flags + cdlPDAllPages
Else
CommonDialog1.Flags = CommonDialog1.Flags + cdlPDSelection
End If
Printer.DeviceName
CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter
Printer.Print ""
choices.RTB1.SelPrint CommonDialog1.hDC
End Sub

where, choices is my form; RTB1 is a richtextbox.

Thanks ~svn

[AM003295]

I belive your line of : CommonDialog1.ShowPrinter

is what shows the common dialog, so what happens if you leave this line out???

[Phil Weber]

Simply delete all references to CommonDialog1:

Private Sub Print_Click()
    Printer.Print ""
    choices.RTB1.SelPrint Printer.hDC
End Sub

[svn]

hahahahahaha.... i think when i read "commondialog.showPrinter' i figured out which line was showing the Printer box!

in any case, i tried that. It gave me an error because it does not have any value for Printer.hDC.

the exact error is:
Run-time error '32001'
Invalid HDC.

[svn]

i see. you changed the commondialog.hdc with printer.hdc.

but that still did nto work. it printed a page with error messages which goes somehting like:
PCL XL error
subsystem:kernel
error:illegalstreamheader
operator:0x0
Position:0

[Phil Weber]

This is a printer error; it has nothing to do with VB. According to http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...ctID=c00041744, if the error occurs consistently, you should try using a different printer driver. If it occurs intermittently, it's likely a communications issue.