Dot matrix printing problem on Access 97/XP

[Mike]

We have been experiencing a strange problem when printing
reports to dot matrix printers.

What happens is that on some pages of the report, text
that appears correctly in preview ends up in a different
place on the report when printed. We have five controls
vertically adjacent and sometimes the text in third
control down will move down to the next line overwriting
the text in the control beneath it. We have tried
replacing the controls with one textbox and catenating
the fields together but the problem still occurs. There
is no code behind the report that manipulates the
controls position.

The only way that we have been able to stop this
happening is by deleting controls from the report and
then adding them again. This however can be quite hit and
miss.

This problem occurs in Access XP and also 97. The most
recent occurance of this problem is on an Epson LX300
using the LX300 driver but we have experienced this on
other dot matrix printers over the years. We have never
found this problem on laser printers.

Can anybody help?

 

[Fons Ponsioen]

I have two suggestions.
1. Allign the text boxes to grid.
2. Size the text boxes to fit.
If these don't help, does the problem change when you
adjust the font size?
Hope this helps.
Fons

 

[Alick [MSFT]]

Hi Mike,

The issue is printer/driver specific, besides Fons's suggestion, do you
have chance to install the latest Driver version of the printer?

Please feel free to reply to the threads if you have any questions or
concerns.




Sincerely,

Alick Ye, MCSD
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation
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| Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
| From: "Mike" <[email protected]>
| X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.access.reports
|
| We have been experiencing a strange problem when printing
| reports to dot matrix printers.
|
| What happens is that on some pages of the report, text
| that appears correctly in preview ends up in a different
| place on the report when printed. We have five controls
| vertically adjacent and sometimes the text in third
| control down will move down to the next line overwriting
| the text in the control beneath it. We have tried
| replacing the controls with one textbox and catenating
| the fields together but the problem still occurs. There
| is no code behind the report that manipulates the
| controls position.
|
| The only way that we have been able to stop this
| happening is by deleting controls from the report and
| then adding them again. This however can be quite hit and
| miss.
|
| This problem occurs in Access XP and also 97. The most
| recent occurance of this problem is on an Epson LX300
| using the LX300 driver but we have experienced this on
| other dot matrix printers over the years. We have never
| found this problem on laser printers.
|
| Can anybody help?
|
|

 

[Guest]

We have tried aligning and resizing but it has not got
rid of the problem.

We have also swapped the printer for an OKI ML280 (Epson
Emulation) and used the recommended Windows 98 Epson FX80
driver but still the problems occur.

We can't afford to waste anymore time on this so we have
decided to use a laser printer instead. In our experience
Access seems a lot happier outputting to laser printers.