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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=310333319-09042003><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>Thanks, everyone for your ideas. I've just gotten
an u</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=310333319-09042003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>pdate from Bill:
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=310333319-09042003><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>Out of desperation and fear of the client, Bill tried
setting the default to another printer--not the client's preferred one, but
just any one, to see if any other difference could be made. And it
worked! So from what you all have said, XP didn't like the driver for the
original printer as well as it likes the driver for this one.
Unfortunately, the client must now choose his preferred printer each time he
prints, but he appears to be OK with that.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=310333319-09042003>Liz</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=310333319-09042003></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=310333319-09042003> </SPAN>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
accessd-bounces@databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces@databaseadvisors.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>William
Hindman<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:24 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
accessd@databaseadvisors.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [AccessD] Printing in Access
2002<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
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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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<DIV
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>
</DIV>
<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>
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