Hi Geoff,
Nope, it wasn't those things. I found that it was the printer's memory, or lack thereof. The printer has only 4 megs. I tried the report on a newer printer that has 64 megs and the pages flew out of it! By the way, both are network printers.
Dana
>Dana-
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>If you search the history you will find i had a question very similiar to yours. The responses were generally the same as well. Here is what I guess is your situation:
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>- some of your reports print fine, others are slow
>- you've change reportbehavior from 90, 80, etc. and haven't had any change
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>I am not sure what your report is but what i noticed about my reports that were printing slow is they all had ONE or more fields that met the following criteria:
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>1. The field stretches with overflow
>2. the field is actually a function that formats data into multi lines (i.e. places some data on one line + CHR(13) + more data + CHR(13)+ etc.). Basically this was the "trick" to doing multi-band reports the old way.
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>Every other report that did not have a field doing this printed like a charm. The only way around it is to somehow get rid of these fields....something i've done in a couple cases but not in others.
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>If this is what you are experiencing...welcome to the club. You basically have to get rid of those fields and the problem will go away.
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>Good Luck-
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>Geoff
Where's the damned Any Key?...too late