Print without dialogue box

[p0welly]

I have a point of save database, that as part of the sale process prints receipts (a report). Is it possible to print a report without the windows "Now Printing" dilogue box poping up, or to hide it in some way?

 

[RuralGuy]

What code are you using to print the receipt?

 

[p0welly]

Something along the lines of...

DoCmd.OpenReport "rptMiniReceipt", A_NORMAL, , "[TransactionNumber]=" & VarTransactionNumber

 

[RuralGuy]

Have you tried using a WindowMode of acHidden?

 

[p0welly]

Yep just tried that but didnt seem to have any effect, its actually the windows printer driver box im trying to hide, so to be fair im not even sure if this is going to be possible.

Your help is apreciated though...

 

[RuralGuy]

Sorry but that exhausts my pool of ideas. Good luck with the issue.

 

[workmad3]

I don't think its possible to hide that window, but the next questiuon is why do you need to? It is slightly comforting to the users to see it flash up quickly and know that they did click print. If something goes wrong and they can't remember that window, they may click print about 20 times and fill up the print queue which you will then need to flush before fixing the printer.

Just a thought

 

[Laurentech]

I remember seeing an article about this on http://www.mvps.org/access/toc.htm

Look for 'Supress Printing Dialog' or something like that.

Larry

 

[RuralGuy]

I'll be darn! And I thought I'd looked at everything on that site.
Suppress the "Printing" Dialog