"On the Fly Printing"
for Access

April, 2011.  After 16 years of creating and marketing add-ons and code libraries for Microsoft Access, ACG Soft has decided to close its business.  We will not be releasing any new or updated versions of our products for Access 2010 or following versions.

To all our loyal customers we wish to say thank you for purchasing and using our products over the years.   We will continue to provide limited support for a period of time over the next few months and will at some point shut down our support e-mail that fields inquiries.

One of problematic areas of Access development is giving users a way to change the printer for an Access report when the report is sent to print without having to preview the report. Veteran Access developers have relied on "On the Fly Printing" to solve this problem.
ACG Soft's "On the Fly Printing" Access code module and class modules provides a simple "drop in" solution for developers wanting to provide users a way to change between local and network printers when printing a report. Its fast and easy to use. With OTF you can:

Not only change printers but select pages to print, number of copies and collation through the standard Print Dialog to preserve the Windows application "look and feel".

Save printer setting changes with the report, or return to the default printer after the print job.

Send multiple reports to a single printer, yet retain each report's layout settings (such as landscape or portrait.)

Set Filters for each report as necessary.

Change printers for reports in MDE / ADE databases in Access 97 & 2000/2002/2003.

Print the first page of reports to alternate paper trays (Developer's version only.)

Change printers without user intervention (Developer's version only.)

Check printer status and manage printers (e.g. on-line or off-line, paused etc. Developer's version only.)

 
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