Print labels - Best option between using access reports or HTML templates

[Luis Serrano]

Hi all,

I'm trying to generate labels to print in several different formats,
all of them with their own height,width and page margins. We've got
this done in MS Access 2000, using a designed report that fits with
each label type, and reads a table dinamically generated. But the
problem is page margins. Does Access store page margins and
information of that kind within de report? Is there any kind of
association between printer configuration and reports? For example, I
want to print some labels in A4, that have 0 left/right/top/bottom
margins, but i can't get this done with access, it "forgets" the
margins configuration when I send a data-filled mdb to the client.

The alternative way can be use HTML, by dinamically writing labels in
a formatted ASP and then printing, but I'm afraid the problem still
remains, because I don't know how to say IE (or other navigator) to
print the page respecting the format I'm sending.

Can I configure printing settings if I use ActiveX, embedding a
browser in HTML?

Please, any idea?

 

[Guest]

crystal reports supports a wide variety of labels. you can generate a crystal
report and render it to the browser as a pdf file so you can keep the format
when you print it..

hope this helps..