Adrian,
As someone who's a lot less experienced than most of you, I'm not
sure exactly what you're suggesting. The printer he's using is the default
printer and the only one actually connected to his CPU (there's a separate
network printer he can access but never does).
Do I create this additional printer in Rbase or in Windows?
And does the word DRAFT included in the name somehow actually toggle the printer
to draft mode? The printer works fine in draft for other software, and
it's default setting is to draft. I don't understand how giving the
printer a different name causes Rbase to send the report out in draft
format?
Paula
Stuart
Community
Development Strategies
70 Summer
Street
Somerville, MA
02143
617-776-3367
617-776-4554
(Fax)
617-388-1331
(Cell)
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Huessy
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 11:27 AM
To: RBG7-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBG7-L] - AW: [RBG7-L] - Printing in DRAFT modeDear PaulaDo you have already tried to create additional printers? This could be a easy workaround. I give this possibility to other users who hate to print every report in 1200 dpi.Create a new printer configuration (with the same printer driver and port) but preset to DRAFT and store with ..DRAFT.. in name.Example: HPLJ_II_Quality as first and HPLJ_II_DRAFT as second.Now you could give the user two different printers or if you preset them in a table, you give him only Draft-Mode and Quality-Mode to choose, if he press Print you set the correct printer. Print to a specified printer is already a functionality of RBase.Best RegardsAdrian-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Paula Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Juli 2005 00:21
An: [email protected]
Betreff: [RBG7-L] - Printing in DRAFT modeIt's always the things that should be really simple that drive me crazy. If it's me, someone PLEASE enlighten me, but I've been through all the documentation and tried everything I can think of and I simply can't make reports print in draft quality no matter what I do.....although the PRNSETUP command documentation indicates that either DRAFT or LOW are options of the QUALITY option.I have a client who routinely looks up records in his contact list. There's a little one page report that can print to screen fine. When he notes that a change is needed (new address for example) he prints this one page report, scribbles the new info on it and sends it off to the person who handles data entry for the client database.I've previously asked for help with this from the point where the report prints to screen, and the user tries to click on the printer icon to print the report. (first click) That brings up the printer dialog box. The default printer is shown and from there he has to select the "properties" (second click) then he has to click "draft" (third click) then he clicks on the first "OK" (fourth click) and then a second "OK" (fifth click). It's driving him crazy. When he first opens the printer properties dialog box it indicates that it's already set to draft, but it still prints in letter quality unless he specifically selects draft quality AGAIN. Then it defaults back to letter quality and he has to go through this for every single record he wants to print.He complains bitterly about this every time I see him (as I said, it's always the little things).The form from which he selects printng the report automatically sends the report to the screen and to get it to print to the printe in draft he has to go through all of the above. I figured it must be a Windows thing....because every other software program he uses allows him to use the default (printer is set to default to draft) except RBase.So then I got the idea of putting an additional button on the form that would print right from the form (without a screen display first) to the printer. Documentation seems to indicate that I should be able to do this with the PRNSETUP and PRINT ReportName OPTION PRINTER commands in the EEP for the button. So I tried it in every configuration of order of commands I could think of and absolutely nothing works. The report will print to the printer without going to the screen, so the OPTION PRINTER works but it ALWAYS prints in letter quality.Because these are just being used to scribble on and give to data entry staff, DRAFT mode is what he needs -- both for speed and to save printer ink.I simply can't believe that RBase (which can do almost everything and lots of things I haven't thought of yet) can't do this.....The EEP I've tried is as follows:PRNSETUP QUALITY DRAFTPRINT FullBioSheet where idno = .vidno OPTION PRINTERReturnThis prints the report but ALWAYS in letter quality.AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!Paula StuartCommunity Development Strategies70 Summer StreetSomerville, MA 02143617-776-3367617-776-4554 (Fax)617-388-1331 (Cell)
