I am having an issue with printer selection.
On Mac OS X, the default printer (in 4d only?) for the first print
dialog (Page Setup) is "Any Printer"
I have found that the margins(?) or Page Size(?), are different than
the Xerox printers that are used here, and probably different than any
actual printer. This affects printing, usually by causing an extra
blank page to be printed. In some instances the blank page is first,
and others it is after. Either way, when working with printing
precisely aligned forms (customized label forms) this causes a problem.
The users know, or at least should know by now, to select a specific
printer in the page setup dialog; however, often they don't, and this
screws up label printing.
I have tried to address the issue by using
SET CURRENT PRINTER to insure that the correct printer is actually
selected.
BUT, I am not getting anywhere.
I use the following code:
PRINTERS LIST($Printers;$Locations;$Models)
$Current_Printer:=Get current printer
$Loc:=Find in array($Printers;$Current_Printer)
If ($Loc>0)
SET CURRENT PRINTER($Printers{$Loc})
Else
<look for specific printers & use one of them>
End if
On my computer there *is* a default printer selected at the OS level.
Stepping through the above code, shows that it is recognized as the
current printer ($Current_Printer).
Additionally, even after re-setting the current printer as the current
printer, the Page setup dialog still maintains the default 'any
printer'. THe code set, or default printer DOES show correctly i the
second dialog (print job) dialog.
Within any single process, this happens for the first time printing.
HOWEVER, if I print (including preview) and then print again (in the
same process) the Page setup Dialog DOES finally have the correct
printer selected.
If I start a new process in which I am printing, the above scenario
repeats itself. i.e. the first time through the dialogs the selected
printer for Page setup is 'any printer'.
I have tried (and none have worked):
- Set printer - and suppressing the page setup dialog
- set printer to a different printer from the current printer, then
changing it back with and without suppressing the page setup dialog
i.e. set printer to B from A, then set it back to A
- setting the current printer to the default printer
- setting printer to a different printer
any help??
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