Print Form to Image Writer

[Guest]

Thanks in advance.
I would like to have a command button on the form to print to the
Microsoft Image Writer instead of the default printer. Can you help?



Regards.

 

[Rick B]

You typically print reports, not forms. Forms are designed to view, add,
and edit data, not to print it. Build a report and then set the page setup
options to go to a specific printer.

 

[Guest]

Typically your right but in our field of work we print only forms which are
then generally scanned. These become our case files. Therefore, we very
rarely use reports. Each form consists of detailed case information and
family identification.
Again any help would be appreciated.

 

[Rick B]

Why do you not create a report? You can make it look exactly like your form
if you want. This has nothing to do with your industry, Access Forms are
not designed to be printed. If you want to have a printed form (the generic
term like a credit application) you do it using an Access report. The
generic term "form" you are using is to refer to a piece of paper with data
on it. In Access, that is called a report.

Create a report and print that. You will then have the control you want.
You can still tell it to only print the current record. You can add a
button to your form and call it "print worksheet" or "print invoice" or
print form" whatever you want.

Then, as I previously stated, use a default printer.

Hope that helps.

 

[Rick B]

Also note that you can open your form in design view and do a "save as
report" to give you a starting point. You can then format it and clean it
up to make it look nice. You can get rid of fields that don't need to be
printed. For example, you may have to enter first name and last name
separately on your form, but on the report you can put these together in one
control and make them look nice.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Rick, I never knew that....I'll give it a try.

 

[Guest]

Additional help please. Now I have created the report
and I can preview report linking criteria to form ID.
I can also print to image writer if report is defaulted to that.
What i am stuck on is, can you
set it so that for the report the printer will be ONLY the image writer.
What has been happening is it wants to now print all my stuff in the writer.
Sometimes I will need a hard copy but rarely.
I was wondering if there was additional code.

Regards... and thanks again.....