Client version 8.5v1
OS Version Windows XP Pro
Server Version 8.0v4

When the file is opened using FileMaker server, the printers go wacko.

* Sometimes you tell it to print to printer A, but it insists on
going to printer B
* I choose Printer A in Print Setup, but Print shows printer B
* I print 300 labels, it prints to record 60 or so and decides it's
done.


Ideas please? I'm going out of my mind.

JG

CORRECTION BELOW:

Client version 8.5v1
OS Version Windows XP Pro
Server Version 8.0v4

File upgraded within the past year from 6.0. The printers keep going
wacko.

* Sometimes you tell it to print to printer A, but it insists on
going to printer B
* I choose Printer A in Print Setup, but Print shows printer B
* Changing the windows default printer sometimes temporarily fixes
the problem so that you can print to printer B, but then selecting
printer A prints nothing and nothing appears in the print queue.
* I print 300 labels, it prints to record 60 or so and decides it's
done.

These problems occur whether opened locally or thru FileMaker Server.
This only happens in FileMaker, no other programs are having this
problem.

Ideas please? I'm going out of my mind.

JG

Same here...only prints to the default printer. I also won't take
changing the printer setup

desksideguru (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

desksideguru (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:
Interesting, and cant really say--never run into the problem.

im sure someone else will have a better solution...

however, out of curitosity sake, what happens when you wrap this in a
'get found record' ?
i.e. if the count really errors out at 60, can you refresh the layout
to 'preview' and rerun the print options from where you left off (e.g.
61?) and loop until last record (or 120 if its incremantal counts of
60 that matter...in which case you could use some modular operator in a
calculated global field)?

quite a hack, but with nothing else to offer, just a thought...


sg

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I never print yet with FM8.5 on my network, but
print setup saved info don't keep the printer selected, only the setup page.
and on the print script step this one keep the printer.... I hope it's true
because I use to have the Changeprinter plugin and Productive Computing told
me FM8 is no longer support, built in feature....

JF






"MaximalVariance" <StephenTGallagher (AT) gmail (DOT) com> a écrit dans le message de
news: 1167956312.215010.285310 (AT) 11g200...oglegroups.com...

I'm having a similar problem. Printed fine for 3 days but now print
takes me to a "save as" box. It always prints to a file, No matter how
I change it back to use the network printer.

In article <1168100416.860547.295120 (AT) 51g2000cwl (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
"DaveB" <dbonnell (AT) danmarrclub (DOT) org> wrote:

Check somewhere in the Print window or Page Setup window. It sounds
like somewhere in those you've turned on a "Print to File" option,
possibly by accident. When printing manually, FileMaker remembers the
last print settings when you next go to print again - which can be a
little annoying when you forget that last time you only printed the
current record instead of all of them.

Scripts using the Page Setup and Print commands will store their own
settings, but these can easily be over-written by new settings by
accident when editing the script and not paying enough attention to
where / what you click.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)