Access 2000 Snapshot Report Prints 6% reduced

[Guest]

I use Access Visual Basic to print reports using the Line function for a
research project. Printing from Access 2000 directly prints to scale
perfectly. A 6" horizontal line drawn in VB is 6" long on that report.

When exported to a Snapshot file and then printed the 6" line prints as 5
5/8". All other horizontal lines are off by the same ratio.

Vertical lines are off by about 3%.

All text is reduced also which is not a problem but the lines must be to
scale.

 

[Stephen Lebans]

Do you by chance have an Ink jet printer as the default(current) printer for
this report when it is exported to Snapshto format? Try changing it to a
plain LaserJet with at least a 600DPI resolution setting.

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Stephen Lebans
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[Guest]

Yes I am printing to a Canon S900 photo printer. This project requires color
diagrams drawn by VB using data from an Access 2000 database. I don't have a
LaserJet but will try taking the SnapShot file to a location that has one. I
will also try printing in grayscale to another printer and get back.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

You don't need to have a physical LaserJet printer attached as long as you
have the drivers installed.

 

[Guest]

I have done the following:

1) Took Snapshot file to another location and it printed fine to a LJ2100
and a HP PSC 750 using Viewer version 11.0.

2) Printed to an old Deskjet 722C here using Viewer version 9.0 and it
printed 6% reduced BUT while the Viewer was still open I printed to a PDF
file, open it in Acrobat, printed it AND IT CAME OUT AT 100%.

3) Downloaded Viewer 10.0 from Microsoft and ran same tests and still get
the 6% reduction.

I have a go-around to get my results by not using Snapshot so Thanks ... I'm
off on other bigger things.