Preventing individual Crystal Reports being locked to printers

Crystal Reports may store a specific printer within each report. This:

• is often not desirable
• can delay printing while the printer is being searched for.

To prevent a Crystal Report from being locked to a specific printer:

1. Start Crystal Reports Developer.
2. Open the report to configure.
3. Select File > Page Setup from the main menu.

   The Page Setup window is displayed.

4. Clear the No Printer field.
5. Close the window.
6. Select File > Summary Info from the main menu.

   The Summary Info window is displayed.

7. In the Keywords field, type either:
   • SetDefaultPrinter
   • SetDefaultOrientationPrinter.

   The report prints to the current Windows default printer.

   

   Note: SetDefaultPrinter is preferred but will also reset page orientation. If the report is landscape orientation, use SetDefaultOrientationPrinter instead.

Last modified: 15/09/2016 12:33:26 PM

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