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Viewing Report set for an off-line network printer
Is there any way to edit a report which uses an off-line network printer?
When I click on the "Design" button, a box comes up saying my (network) printer is not available. It will not open the report unless I select another printer. I can edit a report using a local printer that is off-line. Why not one using a network printer that is off-line? Thanks in advance for any help. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Michael J. Strickland Quality Services 703-560-7380 --------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Viewing Report set for an off-line network printer
If you have a driver for that printer installed on your PC
and its name is identical to how it named on the other computer(s), you should be able to edit it just fine. Unless you are trying to print, the status of the printer does not matter - the important thing is that Access can talk to the appropriate printer driver (not the actual printer) and most importantly that it recognizes the printer driver by the correct name. Rob -----Original Message----- Is there any way to edit a report which uses an off-line network printer? When I click on the "Design" button, a box comes up saying my (network) printer is not available. It will not open the report unless I select another printer. I can edit a report using a local printer that is off- line. Why not one using a network printer that is off-line? Thanks in advance for any help. -- ---------------------------------------------------------- ----- Michael J. Strickland Quality Services 703-560-7380 ---------------------------------------------------------- ----- . |
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Viewing Report set for an off-line network printer
Okay, let me guess, the printer that is off-line to you is
the default printer for the other PC's, and the report was not created to go to a Specified printer but rather to use the default? Try defining the report to Use Specifiic Printer (Page Setup options), and things may work okay. At least until somebody else needs to use the report and does not have the right printer driver installed or it uses a different printer name... Yes, I too would call it a deficiency in Access, but like the 22" page limit referenced in another post today, there are some technical reasons for why Access does things that way. I've had cases where two people use the same type of printer but each used a different network printer name, and any time one of them edited the report after the other had, the margin settings would disappear. That was really a pain. Rob -----Original Message----- -- ---------------------------------------------------------- ----- Michael J. Strickland Quality Services 703-560-7380 ---------------------------------------------------------- ----- "Rob" wrote in message ... If you have a driver for that printer installed on your PC and its name is identical to how it named on the other computer(s), you should be able to edit it just fine. Only if I select that printer, which defeats the purpose and is not a solution. Again, this seems like a deficiency of Access or Windows networking since non-network printers don't have to be on-line to edit reports that use them. Unless you are trying to print, the status of the printer does not matter - the important thing is that Access can talk to the appropriate printer driver (not the actual printer) and most importantly that it recognizes the printer driver by the correct name. The appropriate printer driver is installed. Obviously, network printers are handled differently than local printers. Maybe there is some information that is not installed with the driver so that Access needs network printers on-line for editing reports that use them. Thanks for replying. Mike Rob -----Original Message----- Is there any way to edit a report which uses an off- line network printer? When I click on the "Design" button, a box comes up saying my (network) printer is not available. It will not open the report unless I select another printer. I can edit a report using a local printer that is off- line. Why not one using a network printer that is off-line? Thanks in advance for any help. -- ------------------------------------------------------- --- ----- Michael J. Strickland Quality Services 703-560-7380 ------------------------------------------------------- --- ----- . . |
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Viewing Report set for an off-line network printer
"Rob" wrote in message ... Okay, let me guess, the printer that is off-line to you is the default printer for the other PC's, and the report was not created to go to a Specified printer but rather to use the default? No, Its set to use a specific printer on the other PC. For some reason, a network printer has to be on-line to edit a report that uses it, but a local printer does not. I'm not sure if its a deficiency of Access or the network part of Windows. Thanks for the idea though. .... -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Michael J. Strickland Quality Services 703-560-7380 --------------------------------------------------------------- |
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