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Aside from the various developer-level options for outputting to email (see the Email discussion), there is also a user level-option which only requires that a logical printer be set up whose ini file contains the statement COMMAND=SBX:EMAILP. (See Printer Configuration for further instructions on setting that up.) The only other requirement is that your application software provides a way to choose a printer. (See the EZSPL configuration notes in Printer Configuration for information on how to add printer selection to an application that uses hard-coded printer names.) Once you have the ability to select a printer, you can then print any ordinary (text only) report to email, using the MAPI interface that is included with most versions of Windows. When such a printer is selected, it will launch your email client (e.g. Outlook, Eudora, etc.) with the printed document embedded into the body of the text message, and allow you to address it as you would any other email message.