Page Setup for #10 Envelopes

[Guest]

I distribute an Acc2k mde application that includes an #10 Envelope print
option ... In the Print Setup I define the page to be #10 Envelope which
works fine for my printer, however, other users with different printers
default to letter page. They can re-select #10 Letter manually, but because
it's a mde file so the setting is not retained, requiring them to re-set the
page each time they print an envelope.

Is there a way around this problem?

Thanks.

 

[Tony Toews]

I distribute an Acc2k mde application that includes an #10 Envelope print
option ... In the Print Setup I define the page to be #10 Envelope which
works fine for my printer, however, other users with different printers
default to letter page. They can re-select #10 Letter manually, but because
it's a mde file so the setting is not retained, requiring them to re-set the
page each time they print an envelope.

What might work is if you and your users create a custom paper size on
their computer or printer server with a unique name. Then you always
use that unique name for the paper size.

Setting up custom paper sizes is totally different in the Win NT
4/2000/Win XP environment compared to Win 95/98/ME.

Go into the list of Printers under the Settings button from the Start
menu. You may need to do this on the print server. Then click on
File >> Server Properties Then you can create a new form with the
sizes you want on it as well as a name.

Then you can follow the below steps inside Access to choose the just
created Paper Size. Go into the design of the report, Click
'File',Page Setup', Click the 'Page' tab., Select 'Specific Printer',,
Pick the printer you are using., Click 'Properties' then the 'Paper'
tab., In 'Paper Size' select 'Custom'. and choose your just created
Paper Size.

Tony
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