Access 2000 Snapshot Report Prints 6% reduced

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I use Access Visual Basic to print reports using the Line function for a
research project. Printing from Access 2000 directly prints to scale
perfectly. A 6" horizontal line drawn in VB is 6" long on that report.

When exported to a Snapshot file and then printed the 6" line prints as 5
5/8". All other horizontal lines are off by the same ratio.

Vertical lines are off by about 3%.

All text is reduced also which is not a problem but the lines must be to
scale.
 
Do you by chance have an Ink jet printer as the default(current) printer for
this report when it is exported to Snapshto format? Try changing it to a
plain LaserJet with at least a 600DPI resolution setting.

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Stephen Lebans
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Access Code, Tips and Tricks
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Yes I am printing to a Canon S900 photo printer. This project requires color
diagrams drawn by VB using data from an Access 2000 database. I don't have a
LaserJet but will try taking the SnapShot file to a location that has one. I
will also try printing in grayscale to another printer and get back.
 
You don't need to have a physical LaserJet printer attached as long as you
have the drivers installed.
 
I have done the following:

1) Took Snapshot file to another location and it printed fine to a LJ2100
and a HP PSC 750 using Viewer version 11.0.

2) Printed to an old Deskjet 722C here using Viewer version 9.0 and it
printed 6% reduced BUT while the Viewer was still open I printed to a PDF
file, open it in Acrobat, printed it AND IT CAME OUT AT 100%.

3) Downloaded Viewer 10.0 from Microsoft and ran same tests and still get
the 6% reduction.

I have a go-around to get my results by not using Snapshot so Thanks ... I'm
off on other bigger things.
 
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