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I have a development machine and two production pc's. All run identical copies of the code (.accdb). But all three have different printers. The development machine has a small Epson printer and the two production machines have HP LaserJets (but different models). There is a report in the system...

This is helping guys. I think I can now answer one of my questions. The printers "seen" by the application are stored in the Application.Printers collection. Presumably this collection is instantiated at load time by Access interrogating the (Windows) system for a list of printers. So of course...

Thanks for the "Similar" list. The first one refers to a Microsoft article - which it seems that the original developer used. The issue I have is that in order to establish a relationship between a report and a specific printer it appears that you must do this connection on the Live system. But...

I am supporting an established Access system for a distribution company. They have a set of pre-printed labels and a corresponding set of label printers each loaded with a roll of their particular labels. The Access system has a Report for each format of label. The Reports are programmed with...

My first project was on an ICL System 4 writing an on-line banking system (branches on-line, not customers) I was entrusted with the main account file access. Writing records to disc at the most physical level. We did work out that if certain records were written in a specific order then the...

Don't get me started. I worked with a pencil and pre-printed coding sheets, and you never actually saw a computer. Didn't even have a phone on the desk, the big pencil sharpener with a handle was the latest technology - but you had to share it with the whole office. But the manuals were actually...

I started out in 1969 coding at Assembler level with some COBOL thrown in. I eventually graduated to VB.net after 20 years in operating systems. I dabbled with Access for some home projects, then a friend asked me to help out supporting his business application. It is a large Access application...