Printer margin and orientation settings from ASP

[Giovanni Benedetti]

Hi everybody,

sorry for my English first of all.
I've an ASP page (ASP 3.0) used on an intranet which fill up some particular
Mail sheets getting data from a database.
Those pre-compiled sheets are then showed in IE 6 for checking and then have
to be printed.
To correct printing the sheets I have to change the print margins and paper
orientation from IE 6 settings.
Reading around it looks like I can't change IE 6 print settings without
using C++ (which I don't know), therefore I tried using different ActiveX
Components (such ad aspPrint.dll or ARPrint.dll) but I can't success. When I
try using them, mainly, I got generical errors relative the printer (the
error descriptions doesn't give any deep information, just something like
"problems with the printer" messages or similar) on the lines where I should
set the "Printer Name" and/or "Printer Driver Name" properties (required
settings, not optional settings). I tried setting those properties with all
the "names" I've been able to get from the system (XP Pro SP2) from
Printers, Control Panel, even from the Registry, but nothing is good for
them.
Is there someone on the NG who already fixed those problems and can help me?
Thanks in advance.

Ciao
Giovanni

P.S. I even thought to write by myself such that ActiveX Component from
Visual Basic 6.0, using the VBs Printer object which exposes some methods to
get the default printer of the system. What do you think about it? Someone
has experience on that matter? There are some problems with security
settings or something like that?

[Evertjan.]

Giovanni Benedetti wrote on 28 Sep 2006 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

I've an ASP page (ASP 3.0) used on an intranet which fill up some
particular Mail sheets getting data from a database.
Those pre-compiled sheets are then showed in IE 6 for checking and
then have to be printed.

ASP is a serverside platform for applying vbscript or j[ava]script on the
server to dynamicly render html stream to a client browser.

To correct printing the sheets I have to change the print margins and
paper orientation from IE 6 settings.

Since ASP only influences the content of the above client stream, it cannot
do what a static html steam cannnot do on the client, and so it cannot
change the client's printer settings.

ASP could fire a programme on the server for dedicated server prnting,
I suppose.

[..]

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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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[Giovanni Benedetti]

>I've an ASP page (ASP 3.0) used on an intranet which fill up some

>particular Mail sheets getting data from a database.
Those pre-compiled sheets are then showed in IE 6 for checking and
then have to be printed.

ASP is a serverside platform for applying vbscript or j[ava]script on the
server to dynamicly render html stream to a client browser.

>To correct printing the sheets I have to change the print margins and
paper orientation from IE 6 settings.

Since ASP only influences the content of the above client stream, it
cannot
do what a static html steam cannnot do on the client, and so it cannot
change the client's printer settings.

ASP could fire a programme on the server for dedicated server prnting,
I suppose.

Thank you for your answer.

Sorry, surely I've not been clear enough on my post.
I know ASP can't manage client site settings. The ActiveX Controls I
mentionned (aspPrint.dll or ARPrint.dll) can only print on server but,
dueing we are talking about an intranet, that's not a problem for me. My
problem is I can't get that controls working, neither on server.
Those controls still doesn't accept the "printer name" and "printer driver
name" property values they required to me. The reason of my post is just for
getting help from someone who already used such controls or similar
controls.

But please also consider, even ASP is a serverside technolgy, I could
include a client side ActiveX Control through the <objecttag on an htm
page and call that page from an asp page trying that way to manage the
printer settings. Is this correct?

Thanks again for your answer

Ciao
Giovanni

[Evertjan.]

Giovanni Benedetti wrote on 28 Sep 2006 in
microsoft.publi c.inetserver.as p.general:

Sorry, surely I've not been clear enough on my post.
I know ASP can't manage client site settings. The ActiveX Controls I
mentionned (aspPrint.dll or ARPrint.dll) can only print on server but,
dueing we are talking about an intranet, that's not a problem for me.
My problem is I can't get that controls working, neither on server.
Those controls still doesn't accept the "printer name" and "printer
driver name" property values they required to me. The reason of my
post is just for getting help from someone who already used such
controls or similar controls.

Perhaps the printers are not accessable under the server's iis user
security?

But please also consider, even ASP is a serverside technolgy, I could
include a client side ActiveX Control through the <objecttag on an
htm page

An asp page, and a html page are the same in that sense.
they both render a html [and sometimes the same] stream to the client.

and call that page from an asp page trying that way to manage
the printer settings. Is this correct?

No, because that is not a asp problem,
you will have to ask in a clientside NG.

An exagerating example:

<%
response.write "<imgh src='blah.jpg'> "
%>

Not showing that jpg clientside surely is not an asp problem?

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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)