Hi Larry It seems that many printers, even different models from the same company, have different top margins. (I do not have much trouble with the left / right margins)
It appears the top margin on printers moves the print up and down due to the dead space for the top margin. I was unable to find the top margin setting in 6.5 or 7.1? Am I missing it. Even if 7.1 has a top margin I am afraid the print will still be moved up and down. Now this is no big deal on plain paper but hitting little boxes and having first name xmm down and xymm to the left gets hard... so Medicare can scan the claim. I have about 75 offices using my app so far and about 1/2 have problems getting the print to line up. What I am doing now is 1) I have 3 different claim forms set up, the only difference is the data a little higher or lower on those 3 reports. 2) We can get 2 different pre-printed claim forms where the only difference is one has the boxes 2mm lower that the other one. (this 2mm shift is within Medicare's guidelines) So, this gives us 6 different combinations but still some printers do not match very well. I have only had 1 office say their print was off to the right. I told them to buy an new printer because I was not going to make 6 more reports where I took the original 3 and moved the boxes to the left and right. Talk about a pain to maintain Marc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Lustig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 5:27 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Reports adjust top margin > > Is there a property command to adjust the margin > > up/down and right / left on reports that can be done > > by the end user? > > > > Since some printers have different top margins this will > > still move the data up and down. If they get too far off > > Medicare rejects the claim. > > In RB7, if you specify the margins correctly (that is, using the Margins > setting of the page layout dialog) and you use large enough margins for any > printer you might reasonably encounter, then I would think that the printed > output would consistently appear in the same place on the printed page no > matter what the capabilities of the printer. Have you observed different > behavior? > > RB7.5 is said to have the ability to set report properties in code. I don't > know if that includes the page layout settings (it's not clear to me from the > current interface whether those are considered part of the report or not). > -- > Larry > >
