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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>...having just gone through a week long exercise
with a brand new $18K Minolta Printer/Copier at a client, I can vouchsafe
that lots of XP drivers are buggy ... had to actually install a W2K laptop and
print from it to get critical work out the door ...the only thing that I
can tell you is that if the printer driver is missing the MS Certified for
Windows XP logo there is probably a reason for it besides the cost
:(((((((</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>William Hindman<BR>"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the
decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that
nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is
willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so
by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill <BR></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jimdettman@earthlink.net href="mailto:jimdettman@earthlink.net">Jim
Dettman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=accessd@databaseadvisors.com
href="mailto:accessd@databaseadvisors.com">accessd@databaseadvisors.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 09, 2003 3:16
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [AccessD] Printing in Access
2002</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=740041219-09042003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=740041219-09042003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=740041219-09042003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=740041219-09042003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>Jim Dettman<BR>President,<BR>Online Computer Services of WNY,
Inc.<BR>(315) 699-3443<BR>jimdettman@earthlink.net </FONT></P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
accessd-bounces@databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces@databaseadvisors.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Liz
Doering<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:42 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
accessd@databaseadvisors.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [AccessD] Printing in Access
2002<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear
List,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rebooting hasn't
helped. Nor has a re-install of Access. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anybody
know what is going on here?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks so
much,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=310330818-09042003>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Liz Doering</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Symphony Information Services</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
color=#000000 size=2><A
href="mailto:liz@symphonyinfo.com">liz@symphonyinfo.com</A></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>www.symphonyinfo.com</FONT> </P></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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