[AccessD] Printing in Access 2002

Try installing a very generic driver, such as a HP Laser JET III (assuming
this is a Laser) and printing the report against that.  Buggy print drivers
seem to be becoming an issue again.

If that fixes it, then you might want to try altering some of the original
driver settings (such as spool format), or report properties (such as Layout
For Print and Fast Laser Printing).

Jim Dettman
President,
Online Computer Services of WNY, Inc.
(315) 699-3443
jimdettman at earthlink.net

  -----Original Message-----
  From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Liz Doering
  Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:42 PM
  To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
  Subject: [AccessD] Printing in Access 2002


  Dear List,

  We have a client (Bill) who sells a little application to local city
governments and comes to us about once a year for tweaks and upgrades.
Today he has spent the whole day at one of his cities, trying to get his app
to run on their WinXP/Office XP machines.  (This app was originally
developed in 97 and converted to 2000).  Everything is fine except that
reports do not run.  Hitting the Preview button causes absolutely nothing to
happen.

  I was thinking that this was a problem with the app, or the conversion to
Access 2002, but I don't think so now.  I had Bill create a completely new
.mdb, create one table with four fields:  ID, Name, Address, City.  The ID
field is an autonumber PK, the rest are text.  Bill used the report wizard
to create one simple report from this table, and received the message that
"The wizard is unable to create your report".  Creating a report without the
wizard produced a little more information, a complaint about a lack of
default printer.  (I don't have the exact text of the error message, and I
can't get it, because Bill has given up for the day and gone home.)

  We double-checked for a default printer, which there was, but in the hopes
of changing something, we deleted all printers and re-installed one, setting
that to the default.  The printer will act correctly as the default printer
for Word, Excel, etc.

  Rebooting hasn't helped.  Nor has a re-install of Access.

  Does anybody know what is going on here?

  Thanks so much,

  Liz Doering
  Symphony Information Services
  liz at symphonyinfo.com
  www.symphonyinfo.com
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