Lanier LD 525C printer not printing in color

rbuser

I have delphi 7, version 11.05 build 3 of the report writer. On a
Lanier LD 525C printer using the PCL5c driver, the print preview shows
up in color for a pplabel, ppmemo and ppdbtext components. If I print
to a pdf file, then use the pdf file to print to the printer, the report
prints in color the same way as it shows up in the print preview.
However, if I print to the printer, the text components are not showing
up in color and the images on the report show up differently also. Any
ideas why?

nicocizik

Hi Jeff,

Are all text components showing black? Are you able to recreate this with a
simple example (Report on a form with a button)? Are you able to
successfully print to another printer?

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

All text components that are in color (red) are showing black. The
customer does not have another color printer to test with.

rbuser

> All text components that are in color (red) are showing black. The

this sounds like a printer driver isssue: can this be reproduced in a small
demo? do you have one you can test on?

Ed Dressel
Team DM

nicocizik

Hi Jeff,

ReportBuilder does not contain any logic that automatically sets the printer
to print in black and white (unless by some chance you are manually setting
the TppPrinter.CanGrayScale property to False). Have your user check the
default settings for the printer driver they are using to be sure it is set
to print with full color.

You can also use the new DeviceSettings property of the PrinterSetup object
to access the driver directly.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com