A client of mine is having trouble with the printer settings changing while batch printing using a customised program that automates printing maps of farms. The system uses a map template to print the farms to a scale. The template is specific to a page size and it allows the user to check the page settings on the layout before going off and printing all farms in the batch (sometimes up to 300). At this point the user makes sure the printer settings are set to A3 (this is set to default anyway for that printer) using MapInfos own printer set up. Once the user confirms that the printer settings are correct, it goes off and prints all the farms. The program does not use layouts or existing workspaces to run. It generates fresh layouts for each farm programatically using a MapInfo map with objects representing each type of feature to set the size and placement of the windows when creating the layout. The problem is that after a random number of farms, the printer starts p rinting as though the MapInfo settings are for an A4 page. Checking in MapInfo afterwards shows the printer as being set to A3 still. No rhyme or reason as to when this problem will occur is apparent evidently. The problem did not exist with version 5.0 of MapInfo. We have tried 1. making the printer a local printer (normally it is shared) to remove the interactions of the network; 2. making sure it is the default printer for that computer, and 3. making sure that A3 is the default setting for that printer. The printer is a HP 1120C. I am asking them to try printing to a different printer to see if the problem only exists for HP printers (again). Has anyone else had problems along this line, and even better found a cause? I suspect that it is something to do with the new printer selection features of MapInfo, but it is hard to check because it is one of those random errors. TIA Rob Robert Crossley Trinity Software 10 Trinity Street Parramatta Park CAIRNS 4870 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61-7-40314877 Fax: 61-7-40314810 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.trinitysoftware.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
