[AccessD] print report to a specific printer

David Emerson davide at dalyn.co.nz
Tue Oct 14 20:17:48 CDT 2003


If the report will always be printed to the same printer, then in design 
view select Page Setup, Page tab.  You can select specific printer from 
here, then save the report.  Then create your mde.

David

At 14/10/2003, you wrote:
>Take a look at the 9/24/03 article at
>http://www.augsd.org/Articles.html.  It is titled "Using the new
>Printers Collection to control printing in an MDE".
>
>Doug
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
>Foust
>Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:35 PM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] print report to a specific printer
>
>
>In that case, I think you have only one choice, which is changing the
>default printer temporarily and then changing it back.  An MDE isn't
>going to let you open a report in design view, which is what you have to
>do in order to change the printer and then save it.  Maybe someone else
>has had success using the report's printers collection in an mde, but I
>haven't tried it.
>
>How were you planning to insure that the specific printer is available
>to the target system?
>
>Charlotte Foust
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dale Kalsow [mailto:dkalsow at yahoo.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:11 PM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] print report to a specific printer
>
>
>Sorry, I am using office XP and I be compling the application into an
>mde.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Dale
>
>Charlotte Foust <cfoust at infostatsystems.com> wrote:
>
>         You didn't mention the version of Access. AXP has a printers
>         collection, although even there, I prefer to use the API calls
>to get
>         printer information. Keep in mind, though, that to do this, you
>have to
>         change the design of the report in code, so it doesn't work if
>you have
>         an MDE. Can you fill in some of the details?
>
>         Charlotte Foust
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Dale Kalsow [mailto:dkalsow at yahoo.com]
>         Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:29 PM
>         To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
>         Subject: [AccessD] print report to a specific printer
>
>
>         I have a report that I need to send to a specific printer, that
>may or
>         may not be the user's default printer.
>
>         Does anyone know how to do this using code.
>
>         Thanks in advance!
>
>         Dale
>
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