[dba-Tech] Printers!

/>Worse yet, when Access 97 is installed on Windows XP, for some reason
 >when you receive a fresh copy of an application and open it the first
 >time, Access resets all paper formats to not that of the report, not the
 >default paper format of the printer (which always is A4) but - you
 >guessed it - Letter. Then you have to open every report, change the
 >paper format to A4 and save the report. Great fun!/

Not to defend M$oft idiocies but isn't that a registry setting?

PB


Gustav Brock wrote:

>Hi Jon
>
>You learn to live with it though as a non-English country we are used
>to that localised printer drivers do understand that A4 is used i
>Europe. But if a user has a Windows in UK/US version installed, all the
>trouble is back.
>
>Worse yet, when Access 97 is installed on Windows XP, for some reason
>when you receive a fresh copy of an application and open it the first
>time, Access resets all paper formats to not that of the report, not the
>default paper format of the printer (which always is A4) but - you
>guessed it - Letter. Then you have to open every report, change the
>paper format to A4 and save the report. Great fun!
>
>/gustav
>
>  
>
>>>>Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk 05/04 1:36 pm >>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>Argh! I reckon that 90% of my problems with printers would be solved if
>they
>all defaulted to paper sizes that are actually in use in the UK... Why
>don't
>they all use A4 as standard? Surely the UK market is big enough that we
>can
>all stand up to HP and say "This is an A4 printer, why must you insist
>on
>putting "Letter" on it?" What is letter sized anyway?
> 
>I've worked for various companies here, and all of them use A4 as
>standard,
>and print the occasional piece on A3. That's it. No other sizes... no
>Foolscap, Letter, Legal, Executive or Ledger... A4 and A3...
> 
>Sorry, I needed to get that off my chest :-)
>
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