| re: Is it possible to capture print output
This feature is often offered by the printer driver.
Click File - Print, and you will see your printer's dialog.
There may well be a "print to file" option you can check.
HTH
- Turtle
"Salad" <oil@vinegar.com> wrote in message
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> It's been years since I captured printer output, basically I've
> forgotten how to do it. Can you refresh my brain and let me know how
> it's done if it can be done in Access?
>
> I don't want the output from a report per-se...I am looking at the
> output that would be sent to a printer with all the print codes and
> instead of going to a printer going to a file. A basic text file may be
> only a few hundred bytes in size but the text file, sent to a print
> queue with all the formatting codes can grow over several thousand bytes
> in size. That's the file I want to capture.
>
> Thanks in advance for any input.
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