Graphics printing

Greg Wills gwills at ozemail.com.au
Sun Aug 24 01:46:00 EDT 2003


Hi All

I am still attempting to resolve this printing problem.

Jacqueline, thanks for your suggestion that it could be a graphics 
driver problem. This doesn't appear to be the issue, but it did put me 
onto another path - didn't go anywhere though!

I now suspect that it might be a printer memory problem. (The Lexmark - 
that doesn't print the background graphic has 4mb of memory. I have 
located a Minolta printer (on the same system network) that has 16mb - 
and it all prints OK.

I have today been trying a different tack. If I take a screenshot, then 
I do get an image just as the user sees it ( the Minolta did some funny 
things with the text in a text field - that I was going to pursue 
another day - but this may kill two birds with the one stone - so to 
speak). The thought was that printing a screenshot might require less 
grunt for the printer to push out all the graphics data.

However I am having difficulty finding a way to print only the image 
that is created by the screenshot (a portion of the card). I can only 
see how to print cards, fields, reports. I would appreciate any 
guidance. Thanks

cheers

Greg


>> Hi All
>>
>> I have been having this problem for a year or so and have been waiting
>> to see if Rev 2 would resolve the issue - but no it has not. I have 
>> been
>> discussing this with Kevin, but I now suspect that it may be a 
>> computer
>> problem, not a Rev problem.
>>
>> Issue. Printing a card that has buttons, fields, graphics and a large
>> graphic on layer 1. On my home Mac, this prints beautifully. On a work
>> "windows" machine, networked to a Lexmark printer, it prints the card
>> OK, except for the large graphic in the background.
>
> This kind of thing is almost always a graphics driver issue. See if you
> can find a newer driver for the Windows machine.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>




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