[AccessD] A97. Report with printer and paperselectionpickswrongpaper when deployed on identica

The issue is in the way 2000/XP handles Custom paper.

In Me/98, you only had one custom paper size per machine, represented by
the constant 255.  In 2000/XP, there is support for multiple custom
paper sizes, therefore, it is some random number that Windows gives the
custom paper sizes, that can differ from PC to PC, even with apparently
identical setups.
On your PC you are assigning a paper-size number that the client doesn't
have, as the default paper, when you set your paper to Invoice.  The
client PC defaults to letter because it can't find the same paper size
number as on your PC.

You have to dig in Registry, under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\<<printer name>>\DsDriver
The PrintMediaSupported key has multiple values.  Find Invoice, then use
that as the value for
PrintMediaReady.

Or - do what I did - give the user a "Setup" screen.

Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:46 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] A97. Report with printer and
paperselectionpickswrongpaper when deployed on identica


Hi Andy

No, we doublechecked that. It is the native driver of WinXP and it
hasn't been updated for years.

/gustav

>>> andy at minstersystems.co.uk 08-02-2005 14:16:23 >>>
Just a long shot Gustav, but they aren't on a different version of the
printer driver are they? Don't immediately see why that should cause
your problem anyway, but grasping at straws....
--
Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 



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Subject: RE: [AccessD] A97. Report with printer and paper selection
pickswrongpaper when deployed on identica
Date: 08/02/05 10:39

>
> Hi Doris
>
> It is. It is called "Invoice" both here and at the client. 
> And the app "reads" that - otherwise it would complain
that
"This
> report was previously .. etc."
>
> /gustav
>
> >>> mikedorism at adelphia.net 07-02-2005 19:44:53
>>>
> Make sure the report is set up for Specific printer instead of
Default
> printer.
>
> Doris Manning
> Database Administrator
> Hargrove Inc.
> www.hargroveinc.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav
> Brock
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:14 PM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com 
> Subject: [AccessD] A97. Report with printer and paper selection
picks
> wrongpaper when deployed on identical Windows XP
>
>
> Hi all
>
> The report is set up for printing to a custom printer (named
Invoice)
> using
> a NEC Pinwriter P9XL driver, this matrix printer and endless forms. 
> This prints fine with my machine with same Windows XP and Access as 
> the client.
>
> However, when the app is moved to the client, with the Invoice
printer
> set
> up in exactly the same way, without doing any preview or print and
no
> messagebox "This report was previously .. would you like to
etc." -
> when I
> open the report in design view - the paper format has been set to 
> Letter! Margins are preserved.
>
> When I (re)select paper format to endless forms and saves the
report,
> it
> prints fine and will not fall back to Letter. The Invoice printer is 
> set up with all paper settings (default, advanced etc.) set to endless
forms.
> Still
> Letter is picked initially for paper format.
>
> We've tried in the registry to remove all other paper formats than
the
> endless we need, but it seems that Windows when accessing the
printer,
> rebuilds the list of standard paper formats.
>
> Anyone having a cure for this?
>
> /gustav
> --

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