[AccessD] I must have angered the Printer gods

[Charlotte Foust]

When you make a design change to a report and print it then save it, the
printer you use becomes the default printer for that report.  It's been
that way a loooooong time.

Charlotte Foust
(916) 206-4336

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Brad Marks <bradm at blackforestltd.com> wrote:

> John,
>
> Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.
>
> You were right on target.  I was not familiar with this setting.  I am not
> sure how it got changed, but it is now fixed.
>
> WOW!!! - The Printer Mystery solved and the Cubbies won the World Series
> - Outstanding Week!
>
> Brad
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> John Bodin
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2016 8:54 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <
> accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] I must have angered the Printer gods
>
> If you edit the report and go into the page layout properties, is the
> Sales Dept printer the default printer instead of the generic Default
> Printer option?  I've had report changes and testing to Adobe PDF only to
> find out once I saved it, it made my Adobe the default printer and users
> kept getting errors when printing.  May not be your issue, but along the
> same lines.  -hth
>
>
>
>
>
>
> John Bodin
>
> sBOR Office Systems
>
> jbodin at sbor.com<mailto:jbodin at sbor.com>
>
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> ________________________________
> From: AccessD <accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> on behalf of Brad
> Marks <bradm at blackforestltd.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2016 9:41 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] I must have angered the Printer gods
>
> 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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