Printer selection not valid with HP 2600N

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• Henning Andersen

  November 2005 edited November 2005

  Hi
  
  I have a problem with the same printer. But only if it's a netwok printer.
  My error is "Floating point overflow". It has nothing with FastReport to do.
  I have made a simple application with a printerdialog and "Form1.Print"
  and with the same result.!
  I think that is an problem is in the printerdriver.
  On www.hp.com is located a new driver. But it's not fix my problem.
  MsWord works fine, but MsPulicher crashes somtimes when printing on the same printer. Both on my network and my customers network.
  
  Henning
• gordk St.Catherines On. Canada.

  November 2005 edited 5:42AM

  As Henning stated it may be a flakey driver from hp.
  1. Check and make sure that the report was not designed for a specific printer
  2. In the fr_printer.pas file there is a define prn reset that is commented out
  try uncommenting it and recompile fr then recompile your app, it may help.
  
• terriertech

  November 2005 edited 5:42AM

  Hi Gord, yes the FR support guys already suggested the PRN_RESET trick. This changed the error from "printer selection is not valid" to "floating point overflow", i.e. I seem to be in the same situation as Henning.
  
  The report is built in to our software and has been there for a few years! Working at many different sites with many different printers. So I don't see there being a problem with the report.