Printer Margins

[Grant Baxter]

I'm the guy who is trying to help his friend upgrade his computers to
newer computers running XP.

I'm still stuck on trying to get his Access app to print his invoices
properly. Specifically, the decimal point and the cents are being cut
off the right hand side of the invoice.

I've made a form in XP through print server properties that is the
exact dimensions of the invoice and set the margins to .25, .25, .25,
..25. The cents still keep getting cut off. I changed the margins to 0,
0, 0, 0 and that doesn't change anything on the invoice.

I've noticed that when I have the invoice up on the screen, and go
into page setup in Access, the margins are .25, .25, .25, and the
right margin is set at .416. I can't change any of these settings,
when I do, as soon as I tab to the next setting, the setting I've just
changed reverts back to what it was when I started. Is this because
the margins are being set in the Access application?

Is this something I can fix, or does he need to get the Access
programmer to come back in?

TIA,

grant

 

[Douglas J Steele]

Some printers have restrictions as to what the margins can be.

 

[Guest]

You can try setting your default margin settings under Tools - Options -
General.
I have seen it revert back to the default setting (for whatever reason) but
this worked.

 

[Vincent Johns]

You can try setting your default margin settings under Tools - Options -
General.
I have seen it revert back to the default setting (for whatever reason) but
this worked.

If it /doesn't/ work, you might have to bite the bullet and slightly
widen the field(s) where the value is being cut off. Be sure that the
numeric format allows for 2 fractional digits (or whatever number you
need), as maybe nothing's being cut off at all and you're just
displaying integers.

-- Vincent Johns <[email protected]>
Please feel free to quote anything I say here.