Screen printer does not support printing

rbuser

Hello I have this message raised when I am trying to preview a report. Any
advice?

operating system : Windows 98 SE
system resources : 77?73 (gdi/user)
ReportBuilder: 6.03

Thanks
Marco

digitalmetaphors

This means that the printer you have selected for the report is the screen
printer. It is designed so that machines, which are not connected to a
printer, can use the screen canvas to determine pagination instead of RB
using the printer canvas. If you have a printer installed on the machine and
you want to print the report, then in the print dialog, make sure that you
select a printer from the drop down list at the top of the dialog. It sounds
as if it is defaulting to screen in your case because the
Report.PrinterSetup.PrinterName has been assigned to 'Screen' when the
application was built.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

and

I do not set any default printer, I just use the default printer setted by
the o.s.. I am not sure to understand what" screen printer" is...
I use standard rb preview dialog, so they just press the print button on
it.
I am thinking about fax printer, some program install such printer driver to
send printing to the fax. Could it be the case?

Thanks

digitalmetaphors

This is not a known issue. You should only get this message if you are
printing to the printer and you select 'Screen' as your printer name.
Download RB 7.01 (trial edition) and see if the problem goes away, since you
are using RB 6.03 currently. Upgrade to 7.01 full version of the problem
goes away. If you can reproduce the problem in RB 7.01, then send us a
simple example project to support@digital-metaphors.com


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

I have found out... no printer is installed.

Thanks

Marco