Printing report deosn't print Images

[Guest]

(First of all, sorry for the double post. I posted this in error under
FormsCoding)

I have a report that has a couple of image controls on it. When I preview it,
it looks fine. When I print to one printer, it prints fine, but when I print
to a second printer, it all prints except for the images. Is this because
printer two is not a Post Script printer?? (Printer one is a Post Script
printer) Help!?!?!?
Thanks for any replies.

 

[Exponent]

Postscript should not be required for this to work.

Updating the printer drivers has resolved several issues like this, so try this if you have not already.

 

[Guest]

I have tried updating the printer driver with no luck....still doesn't
print.....

The imbedded image I am trying to print on the report is a company logo.
If I set the path as you say in the section of the report, it's hardcoded
in. What happens now when I package that database and it's on other
machines???
Those paths and pictures don't exist on other machines. I don't knwo if
that's going to work.......

In the report section's on format event (I believe it will
work in the on print event too) set the image control's
picture property to the desired image.

image1.picture = [imagepath]

imagepath could be a simple path such as
c:\pickys\mypic.bmp
or
the contents of field in your record source which contains
the image path you want.

This seems to make the displaying and printing of variable
images reliable.

HTH,

Terry

-----Original Message-----
(First of all, sorry for the double post. I posted this in error under
FormsCoding)

I have a report that has a couple of image controls on it. When I preview it,
it looks fine. When I print to one printer, it prints fine, but when I print
to a second printer, it all prints except for the images. Is this because
printer two is not a Post Script printer?? (Printer one is a Post Script
printer) Help!?!?!?
Thanks for any replies.


.

 

[Guest]

To anyone interested, the issue is resolved.
The printer in question is a PCL (not post script) printer. It appears that
to print to a non post script printer form Access, the print quality needs to
be set to "Best". for the graphics to display.

 

[Exponent]

Thanks for posting the update.

Was this a printer/driver specific setting, or a general/Access one ?
The only similar setting I could see using a local HP printer was fixed resolutions of 300 and 600 dpi,
both of which did print graphics from Access.

 

[Guest]

It is a printer setting, I'm afraid........
I went to a user group on the HP website and found a post where someone
couldn't print images from Access 97. Someone else replied that the "Print
Quality" setting needed to be set to 'Normal' or 'Best' for non-post script
printing from Access. I tried it and found that for me, 'Normal' didn't work
but 'Best' did print images.
The 'Best' stting for the HP 2500c i question is 600 dpi and that seems to
work.
Why 600 dpi doesn't work for you, I don't know. Good Luck.

 

[Guest]

Hi Joey.
I had the same problem - thanks for the solution... it works for me also.
But its just stupid that you have to but in on the best quality for printing
the images. Ps. You can also export to Snapshort view og then print... its
just not optimal.

Regards,

Bjørn
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