[AccessD] I must have angered the Printer gods

Brad Marks bradm at blackforestltd.com
Fri Nov 4 08:41:32 CDT 2016


All,

Yesterday, our accountant asked for a minor change to report (Access 2007).

I made the requested change and ran some tests by printing the report.  I used a printer that is in our Sales department.

This morning, when our accountant printed the report, it was printed on the Sales department printer instead of the Accounting department printer.  

He then called me and together, we opened the report and then printed it by selecting the Accounting department printer.  Again, it printed on the Sales department printer in spite of the fact that we had explicitly selected the Accounting department printer.  I could not believe this and tried it two more times and sure enough, the report continued to print on the wrong printer.

I then tried the exact same steps on my PC and things worked properly.

I have never seen this happen before.

The strange thing is that this problem did not occur until after I have made some minor cosmetic changes to the report.  None of the changes that I made, had anything to do with the printer, other than the fact that I used a different printer for one of my tests.

Any ideas on why this problem has surfaced?

Is there a way to "force" an Access report to a specific printer (with no user intervention)?  

Thanks,
Brad



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