Printer settings won't stick

[genomon]

Checked the FAQs & previous posts and no suggestions have worked yet. Access 2002 reports will not remember printer settings from the HP4600 dtn 5c printer. All available SRs/SPs for Office are installed, and tried a newer version of the printer driver, but still no love...
Anyone have another idea? It would be soooo much nicer (and faster) if I didn't have to use the new printer object and program this stuff, but that is where I'm heading.
Thanks!
- Geno

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
-Poe

 

[padinka]

How are you setting the printer?

Trisha
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[genomon]

Printer is set using standard defaults - each Access report has different settings (portrait, landscape, duplex, etc.) which Access is supposed to save and use each time the report is opened. Problem is after opening the report, Access doesn't save the settings and the report is printed with the printer driver defaults. This never happened in all previous versions of Access we have used...

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
-Poe

 

[janerussel]

Did you ever find a solution to this problem. I am having a similar problem with one of my reports in Access 03

 

[genomon]

The "solution" I ended up using was to create a table of reports with a print code for each. The code that automates printing in the app does a SELECT...CASE on the printer code, and assigns properties of the new printer object on the fly. A little more work, but way more robust...

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
-Poe

 

[ProgramError]

You will find that access DB's created on one computer with one particular printer may change the report sizes when used on a different computer or with a different printer. This occurs when the DB is opened and can't find the printer which the report was designed for and will ask to use the default printer because of this.
I used Access to print DVD and VHS labels with multiple users. Each time I make ammendments to a report I have to resize the reports when the DB is installed on the other users computer
Your idea of a printer table could be useful, as they could store all sizes of the reports and set the properties of them when opened.


Ian Mayor (UK)
Program Error
Programming is 1% coding, 50% error checking and 49% sweat as your application bombs out in front of the client.