Printing In Access 2003

[Ancient Mariner]

I am having a number of problems with my databases and I know it is because I
do not have a printer installed. But I have two, both attached by USB. I have
recently changed to Vista on a new computer and reinstalled Office 2003 plus
Access 2003 as a seperate program. All my installed programs can use the
printers, including the Word and Excell. The printer Icon on the toolbar in
Access states that a printer is not installed and I cannot use the print,
page setup or print preview tabs under the File menu. I can fing no way to
get Access to find the installed printers. Help please

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

If you go ahead and create a new report on this machine, then can you print
it? (actually you don't have to print it, you can preview it).

Please try the above and see what happens, if you can print view and design
only new reports, but existing reports cannot be viewed or attempted to be
printed, than that suggest that the old reports or actually set and designed
to be printed only to a specific printer (I use the avoid using this feature
taxes, as you can see it will cause problems exactly as you describe).

So as a general rule of the future to not design reports and assign them to
specific printer, because then when you change printers or by new computer
or even move the application to another computer, you'll find exactly the
kind of problem you describe.

The other thing of course is to check that you have a particular printer set
as the default when you launch MS access, and that printer is available....

I often install a one of the many free PDF creators available and use that
as my default printer one and develop using MS access, this is especially so
when a minor network and some printers actually may not exist or not even be
available.

So would also suggest that you consider installing some type of printer or
having a default under that's always available. You can find a free pdf
creator and printer here:

It is also very fast, and works very well. I highly recommend it.

http://www.acrosoftware.com/products/cutepdf/Printer.asp

 

[Ancient Mariner]

I could not create a new report on this machine because I did not have a
printer installed, that is Access could not "see" either of my two installed
printers. I have resolved the problem, by accident, I changed my default
printer and Access then recognised it. I can now create a report and then
print it, but when I changed back to my "normal default printer, Access does
not recognise any printer. I will have to change the default printer to use
Access and change back for the remainder of my programmes. I have a Laser Jet
as my default and an all-in-one for colour. Thanks for the response.

 

[George Nicholson]

You might try deleting your default laser jet and then reinstalling it. It
might just be something about that installation instance that Access is
having trouble with rather than the printer itself.