How to use default printer settings

[Jürg Leuenberger]

I have a MDE FrontEnd that is distributed to many clients. the clients have
different printers or simply different default settings for their printers
(e.g. duplex or simplex). Why is it not possible that Acc prints the reports
on the default printer with the default printer settings?
E.g. I have set my default printer to print two-sided. Some people don't
like that and set their printer to one-sided. But nevertheless the reports
print for them two sided, since this seems to be saved with the report.
Is there a way to let Acc know that it should simply use the default printer
settings and not what is saved in the report (I am not talking about margins,
orientation and such, but paper tray, duplex, ...)?
Can anybody help?

George

 

[SA]

George:

If you set certain printer settings in the report when it is created (e.g.
color vs. b & w, duplex vs. simplex, etc.) by selecting a specific printer
and then setting the properties those settings are saved with the report,
even if you re-save the report to use the default printer. Because the
properties are saved with the report, it will try to apply those properties
to the default printer at run time.

With an MDE, there is no effective way to circumvent this other than to
select the report in the db window, or preview it and from the file menu
choose File -> Print and in the resulting dialog specify printing properties
at run time.

 

[SA]

George:

If you set certain printer settings in the report when it is created (e.g.
color vs. b & w, duplex vs. simplex, etc.) by selecting a specific printer
and then setting the properties those settings are saved with the report,
even if you re-save the report to use the default printer. Because the
properties are saved with the report, it will try to apply those properties
to the default printer at run time.

With an MDE, there is no effective way to circumvent this other than to
select the report in the db window, or preview it and from the file menu
choose File -> Print and in the resulting dialog specify printing properties
at run time.