Fighting the printer again...

[zakman]

Funky stuff, that's about all I can say...

I have a simple program that has a textbox and prints it on a selected printer with 3"high x 5"wide label stock.

I tried using the Printer Common Dialog box to select the label printer to use, for some odd reason it always defaults to 1536 copies.

I set the printer's height to 762mm (3&quot, yet it ignores that and defaults to 8". And to top it off, it will skip down about an inch before it prints...

I am trying to use the Printer object right now. I thought about using PrtDevMode from MS Access, but I can't find reference to that in VB6. I thought about using the Report Designer, but not sure if its worth the effort.

Any ideas? I'll provide more info if you need it, thanks guys and happy holidays!

--Kevin

 

[bjd4jc]

I would use the report designer... I've seen a few threads in this forum that use the designer to print labels... it's worth a shot and you would learn something from it - always a plus!

 

[zakman]

I checked out another discussion involving printing 3x5 labels which is similiar to my problem.

Next problem is that I am now using a data report to generate the label. The report contains one label which I populate in code. The report will not display/print because the datasource is invalid... well, I dont have a datasource for it because I was trying to plug the text in directly. Any ideas?

--Kevin

 

[johnwm]

There is a simple illustration of generating a recordset in code then using it for a datareport in one of the MSDN samples directories. It's called Loan.vbp and shows just what you need.

You'll find it at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...98/html/vbsmpLoanSampleApplicationLoanvbp.asp

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