When posting a transaction in Dynamics GP, a series of posting reports print by default. Typically there is a posting report with full posting details, a distribution summary report, a distribution detail report, and in many cases a checkbook report.
Reports are often set to ask for the type of output (Printer, Screen, or File) each time. If this setting is turned on each report will open a window allowing the user to change the report destination when the report is run. This significantly increases the amount of time it takes to simply start the printing process because the user has to make a choice each time. Additionally, reports set to print to a printer will open a window allowing users to set the number of copies or limit printing to certain pages:
This means it's not uncommon to have eight windows open and four reports print every time a user posts. Even worse, the summary and detail distribution reports are subsets of the posting...