[Virtualacorn-list] Printing from VA via an Access shared printer

[Jeremy Nicoll - virtualacorn]

Chris Shepheard <chris.shepheard at chrispics.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem and found a 
> solution.
> 
> I have VARPC-SA on a laptop and it prints absolutely fine via 
> Uni=Print to a printer connected directly or via a wireless printer 
> server to the Windows side.
> 
> However if I try to print to a shared printer connected to via native 
> RPC (via the wireless network) the print comes out fine but is pushed 
> up into the top left corner of the paper.

So, "not fine" rather than "fine" then?

I'm unclear what you mean by "a shared printer connected to via native RPC
(via the wireless network)".  Do you mean the printer is physically
connected to a real RPC, and VRPC & the real RPC are sharing the printer? 
What device(s) is the print data being sent through?

Or that RO on the VRPC is sending data direct to the printer?  If the
latter, what is the printer actually plugged into (ie what's receiving the
wirelessly-sent data)?


> If I transfer the file to the RPC and print from there the margins are
> interpreted correctly.

If you define a print-to-file printer on the real RPC and print a test
document you'd end up with a PrintOut file containing the data that would
normally be sent to the printer.

If you separately define a print-to-file printer under VRPC and print the
same test file, you should end up with another PrintOut file containing data
that would normally be sent to the printer.

These files of printer-instructions should be the same.  Are they?

Is the margin info that you think has gone missing defined in the
application that is generating the print-out (eg in OvnPro), or by the
printer definition in !printers?
 
> This occurs no matter what program/application I am printing from and 
> it seems to me that the paper margins are being ignored in the 
> transfer between the two machines.

Or possibly scaling info?  When you said the failing printout was "pushed
up" into the top corner do you just mean the top & left margin info is
wrong, or that the size of the printed stuff has shrunk?

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Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.