Injet printing problem.

rbuser

I know I've asked similar quesitons but I do need some help with my
problem.

I have several report templetes that I load into the report object at
run time. When I print these reports to my laser printer they are
formated correctly and look good, however, when I print these same
reports to an Inkjet printer without changing any margins or anything,
the reports print off the edge of the paper. In portrait mode they
print off the bottom of the page and in landscape they print off the
right edge.

Is there any way to maybe scale the report in report builder based on
orientation so this does not happen or is there a way to recalculate
the printable area and set some properties so the reports print
correctly? Is this a printer driver problem or just something unique
to inkjet printers?

David Looney

rbuser

David,

While it might be cool to have some RCL components which automatically
reposition themselves to fit within the printable area of a printer's
physical page, that could cause some rather unpredictable results in reports
which need to precise layout.

I would think that for now, you'd have to either code such behavior into
your reports or create your own custom RCL components to suffice.

For what it's worth, since good page layout rules-of-thumb suggest
significant white space on a page, I tend to always create my reports with
robust margins (top, bottom and outside at 0.75 to 1.00 inch, inside at 1.25
inches) which, as a side effect, allows me to avoid the printable area issue
entirely.

Good luck to you.

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Robert Leahey
robert@thoughtsmithy.com