Printing: preview perfect, printout misaligned

[Tim]

Hi,

I have created some code for printing a column report. The default page size
is 850 x 1100, which is correct. The print preview looks perfect. The data
is positioned exactly where it should be. (centered)

When I go to print however, the data is shifted to the right. About a
margin's worth. I set the margins at 50 and it looks like it is at 100.

I checked the code and the starting X position is at 50. So why is it
printing misaligned?

Can anyone offer any suggestions? I am printing on an 8.5 X 11 sheet of
paper on a laser printer. I have tried it on a different printer with the
same results.

Thanks

Tim

[Ron Allen]

Tim,
You have encountered the 'hard' margins of the printer. Basically the
drawing area on the printer is starting at the top/left hard margin instead
of the paper's top left when output is to the printer. Search for
GetHardMargins in microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.drawing to find a
function to load these margins. You can then compensate for this by calling
TranslateTransf orm on the Graphics with the negative of the margin values
and things will work the same.
If you can't find the code (or can only find a VB.NET versioin) I can
post it here again.

Ron Allen
"Tim" <ti*@home.com > wrote in message
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Hi,

I have created some code for printing a column report. The default page
size is 850 x 1100, which is correct. The print preview looks perfect. The
data is positioned exactly where it should be. (centered)

When I go to print however, the data is shifted to the right. About a
margin's worth. I set the margins at 50 and it looks like it is at 100.

I checked the code and the starting X position is at 50. So why is it
printing misaligned?

Can anyone offer any suggestions? I am printing on an 8.5 X 11 sheet of
paper on a laser printer. I have tried it on a different printer with the
same results.

Thanks

Tim

[Tim]

Thanks Ron,

I am looking into it now. I have found some code and I am trying it out...

Tim

"Ron Allen" <rallen@_nospam _src-us.com> wrote in message
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Tim,
You have encountered the 'hard' margins of the printer. Basically the
drawing area on the printer is starting at the top/left hard margin
instead of the paper's top left when output is to the printer. Search for
GetHardMargins in microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.drawing to find a
function to load these margins. You can then compensate for this by
calling TranslateTransf orm on the Graphics with the negative of the margin
values and things will work the same.
If you can't find the code (or can only find a VB.NET versioin) I can
post it here again.

Ron Allen
"Tim" <ti*@home.com > wrote in message
news:JJ******** ***********@new s20.bellglobal. com...

Hi,

I have created some code for printing a column report. The default page
size is 850 x 1100, which is correct. The print preview looks perfect.
The data is positioned exactly where it should be. (centered)

When I go to print however, the data is shifted to the right. About a
margin's worth. I set the margins at 50 and it looks like it is at 100.

I checked the code and the starting X position is at 50. So why is it
printing misaligned?

Can anyone offer any suggestions? I am printing on an 8.5 X 11 sheet of
paper on a laser printer. I have tried it on a different printer with the
same results.

Thanks

Tim