PHP & COM

I'm having a problem using COM and PHP4 on the Windows NT Platform. I don't think its an actual problem with PHP itself but here goes. Basically the clients upload documents to the server. I use PHP file uploading to do this. I then spawn Word to print out this document on the Server. Here is where i get my problem. The code i'm using is similar to that listed below $word =new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate word"); print "Loaded word version($word->Version)\n"; $word->visible =1 ; $word->Documents->Open("$pfile"); $word->ActiveDocument->PrintOut(); $word->Quit(); This all works fine except it appears that the $word->ActiveDocument->PrintOut(); would seem to be returning before the document has actually been spooled for printing. When the $word->Quit(); is run Word on the server throws up a dialog box asking if i want to abort the printing of the current document. I'm assuming that Word must be threading the printing hence the $word->ActiveDocument->PrintOut(); statement returning virtually straight away. I'm so near, yet frustratingly so far. Can anybody help ? Thanks in advance Sean _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.