Question Access 2003 and Network Printer

[Starchildren3317]

Good Afternoon Community -

My organization uses an application written using Access 2003. Part of what this application does is print and preview reports.

We recently added a new printer to our network for these users. Now when the users have this printer set up as their default printer, the Access application is not previewing or printing the reports.

Other than this Access application, the users are not experiencing any difficulty printing to this printer.

If the users want to Preview or Print a report they now have to set the old network printer as their default first.

Has anyone else experienced the same or may have heard of a solution to this problem? I have been doing some looking around and have yet to find a reason or a solution.

Thanks in advance!

 

[DCrake]

You can specify which printer to use when generating reports, if the printer is a shared printer on a print server I suggest you set this as your default printer then design a report in the developement mdb and resave it. Then try a print preview it should then use this printer.

If this does not work then you may need to nominate the printer for all the offending reports.

 

[Starchildren3317]

Resolved the issue. I'm not exactly sure why this worked so if anyone has any ideas I'm open to hearing them out of curiosity.

For each report I had to go into Page Setup and specify the new network printer for that report. Then I open the report in Design view. Then I go back into Page Setup and change the specification back to Default Printer.

It now previews and prints the reports just fine.

Thanks DCrake - you got me headed in the right direction with your reply!