>We have an application that contains a report that is an income tax form. It contains lines, shaded areas, and text in various fonts including various sizes, bold, and regular. The problem we are having is that some of our users are having trouble printing this form on some laser printers with 1 meg of memory. The real question is, what is it in a report created with the report designer that adds to the memory requirements of the report. What can we change to reduce the memory requirement of the report.
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>Incidentally, the report was created by putting the entire report in the "detail" band. Data printed on the report is taken from a file that is calc'd using a function that is called in numerous places on the report.
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>Any help would be greatly appeciated.
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>Regards, John

Another trick which helps is to go into the printer settings dialog, and check "Download softfonts as graphics" - this will mean that Windows has to do the rasterizing, not the printer, and that printer memory is completely available for graphics (since the pages will be completely downloaded as bitmaps).

With laser printers the memory is usually divided into font and bitmap memory, usually 50:50. This way you tell it "no fonts, only bitmaps". Then it's the PC which converts fonts into bitmaps, and some more traffic along the cable, but you should have the whole megabyte available for your page and it should print as is. Don't know if it will induce noticeable delay.