Viewing and printing reports

[Bicester]

I seem to have a strange problem that has me going around in circles.

I have been developing a database using office 2000 running on windows 98. The database sits on a server with shortcuts on every PC. It now all runs ok except for 1 exception.

There is one of the reports that runs on some pc's and not others. ie Some PC's show the data and we are able to print that report and other PC's show blank pages which then will not printed, and also hang.

All pc's run W98 and office 2000. The server is running server 2000.

It is always the same PC's which have this problem.

I cannot establish why, with 4 pc's running the same software, two have a problem and two don't.

3 of the PC's are standard pc's and one is a Compact. The compact is one of the ones with the problem.

I do not think it is a memory problem as they all have a minimum of 64Mb

 

[THWatson]

Bicester
I don't know for sure what the problem is, but it could also lie with the printer and printer settings, and the way that data is fed to the printer.

I had this problem recently where things worked perfectly on all printers but one. I had to change the printer settings.

Just a thought.

Tom

 

[Bicester]

Thanks for the reply.

I did look at this first of all as it seemed the most logical. Like you I have had problems going to different printers before, but I don't think its the printer or printer settings, and we are only printing to one network printer, so no change of printer settings required.

It is also that I just get a blank report and it is only on one of many reports types in my database. All of which function correctly except for this one on certain PC's.

Strange indeed. I shall ponder over it this evening

 

[pbrown77]

Check the default printer. We had the same problem and found from microsoft sites that unless the PC has a valid default printer the access reports can go astray.


HTH

 

[THWatson]

Bicester
You could also try rebuilding the report. That doesn't seem logical, I know, but sometimes it works.

Tom