Making default printer for specific report? 1

[ffleitas]

Hello programmers,

How do you set a default printer for a specific report? While the other reports remain referenced to the Windows default printer.


Thanks,
Felix

 

[mvpacc]

To use a specific printer for a report, you can do it two ways:

1.) Select the report in the db window and from the File -> Page set up menu on the Page tab, select a "specific printer". The drawback to this approach is that if that specific printer is not on the other user's machine in exactly the same configuration as it is on your machine, then they will get an error when they try to print it as "printer not found".

2.) Change the default printer at run time just before you output the report. There's many ways to do this, with code examples to do so posted in the MS knowledge base. Search for default printer.

Alternately if you don't want to code it yourself, you might take a look at our "On the Fly Printing" classes for access at:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/attac-cg