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edited December 2003 in General
Aldo the preview print is ok, all images on paper are black. I had this
problem first with a HP 145 and now with a HP Business Inkjet 1100D. All new
drivers for these printers are installed. Is there a solution for this?

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  • edited December 2003
    Hi Peter,

    Try setting the Transparent property of these images is set to False. It
    may be a limitation of the resources on the printer/OS. Does the report work
    on any other printers? Can you generate to an intermediate archive file and
    use a simple test application that uses an TppArchiveReader to print the
    report? This would take your application out of the equation at runtime as a
    cause of resource limitations.

    --
    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited December 2003
    I have had this problem. The image shows up fine on some printers and
    others I get a black box. Fortunately for me, the image doesn't need to
    show up so I have a toggle to on the image to allow the user to show or not
    show the image. I don't recall if I tried to set the transparency to false
    or not any more. I also tried using different image types, but that didn't
    fix the problem.

    Jeff Kreider

  • edited December 2003
    I think it is a bug. The transparency is already set to false and the
    problem is still there.

  • edited December 2003
    Yes, i have had that problem to.
    I added a picture to my report and saved it into the database (whith a
    computer windows xp).
    Than i had the problem on computers whith windows xp.
    I solved that problem by saving the report whith a computer windows 98.
    Than it works fine on both windows 98 and windows xp.

    But strange indeed....

  • edited December 2003
    I also have the black image problem. Preview is ok. But printing comes out
    black sometimes.
    I have tried everything suggested here but the problem persists. It must be
    a bug.
    There is no other data on my report except images. If anyone finds a
    solution please post here
    Thanks
    James
  • edited December 2003
    Hello All,

    We have developed a patch that addresses some issues with printing bitmaps
    in ReportBuilder 7.03 including a resource\memory leak. I cannot guarantee
    this will fix the black image problem as I am not able to recreate this
    behavior but it is definitely worth a try. If you are interested in this
    patch, please send an email to support@digital-metaphors.com requesting the
    ppUtils patch. Thanks for all your patience.

    --
    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited December 2003
    This is a patch for RB 7.03.

    --
    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited December 2003
    Are you saying the patch is included in 7.03 or is a patch for 7.03?
    guarantee
    the
  • edited April 2004
    We also have the problem with black images sometimes.
    Patch requested trough mail

    Franky

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