Printing rows out of alignment

[Guest]

I have and access program that I wrote 1 year ago on a windows 98 workstation. I just got a new computer running windows XP and I'm having problems printing the reports. I have a report the have multiple rows of employee times. In the print preview, it all looks fine. When I print it though, the text starts getting out of alignment with the row lines. By the bottom of the first page, the text is a full row off. Could it be a printer driver? Does office have a way of manually dictating how many rows print on a page? The printer is on a server machine running Window Small Business Server 2000

Help?

 

[Larry Linson]

When I print it though, the text starts getting
out of alignment with the row lines. By the
bottom of the first page, the text is a full row off.

"Row lines"? Are you talking about printing on a pre-printed form? If so,
check the height property for the detail section and adjust it.

Could it be a printer driver?

Yes, almost any printer problem _could_ be a printer driver problem. It's
always worth a visit to the vendor's site to see if there's a more recent
driver available for download. But it isn't _necessarily_ a driver problem.
You may need to get new drivers both for the user's machine and for the
server where the printer resides.

Does office have a way of manually
dictating how many rows print on a
page?

Not as far as I know, though there are various specifications you can set
for printers that could possibly affect it.

The printer is on a server machine running
Window Small Business Server 2000.

The only thing I can think this might affect is the driver used to actually
drive the printer.

Please clarify your question and perhaps someone may have other suggestions.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP

 

[SA]

Jeremy:

Your post is not clear about what you mean that the text get out of
alignment with the row lines; you mean that the lines over lap the text as
it goes down the page?

If so there could be a myriad of issues here, but a couple of things to look
at first.

1.) Yes, check and update both video and printer drivers. (Update the
server first related to the printer and then delete the printer locally and
re-attach to it; the server will then download the latest drivers to the
workstation.)

2.) Check the dpi used for your report. Keep in mind that video display is
done at about 96 dpi and that printer can range normally from 600-2400 dpi.
That's a huge difference when it comes to converting images in point and
pixels which are used in printing and display respectiely. You may want to
increase the dpi used for your report.

2.) In our experience Access has historically had an issue with minor
"slippage" of items as they move down the page due to mis alignment of
images to the pixels and points. You can move lines and other controls and
section heights at a granular level of .0007 inches from the top. Often the
height of the detail section can be adjusted in minor incremenets
(especially if you have lines at the top or bottom, above or below sections,
to substantially reduce or eliminate the "shifting" that you see.

HTH
--
Steve Arbaugh
ACG Soft
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/attac-cg

I have and access program that I wrote 1 year ago on a windows 98

workstation. I just got a new computer running windows XP and I'm having
problems printing the reports. I have a report the have multiple rows of
employee times. In the print preview, it all looks fine. When I print it
though, the text starts getting out of alignment with the row lines. By the
bottom of the first page, the text is a full row off. Could it be a printer
driver? Does office have a way of manually dictating how many rows print on
a page? The printer is on a server machine running Window Small Business
Server 2000.

 

[Guest]

In the detail section of my report, (block report from the wizard) it prints the data and then goes to the next line and prints the next data and so on. The block lines seem to be printed on top of the data and the farther you go down the page, the worse it gets until at the end of page 1, there is and empty "block" or row and the data that should be in it, is in the block above. Should I try a different report style and manually put the data separating lines? I'm just not sure why this used to print fine and now it doesn't. Another workstation actually just had the same problem printing in excel, only the column lines were misaligning as you went accross the printed page.