Changing Printer's default paper

[Panos]

Hi all,
I am trying to print a report in A4 paper, but my printer's default paper is
different (Letter 8.5 x 11 inches). So when i print, a significant part of
the paper remains blank, because of the different margins. Does anyone know
how to programmaticall y change the printer's default paper? Almost all
properties of the Printersettings Class on this matter are ReadOnly.

Thank u

Panos

[ShaneO]

Panos wrote:

Hi all,
I am trying to print a report in A4 paper, but my printer's default paper is
different (Letter 8.5 x 11 inches). So when i print, a significant part of
the paper remains blank, because of the different margins. Does anyone know
how to programmaticall y change the printer's default paper? Almost all
properties of the Printersettings Class on this matter are ReadOnly.

Thank u

Panos

Take a look at -

DefaultPageSett ings.PaperSize. PaperName

or maybe consider showing the User a Dialog where they can select the size -

PrintDialog1.Sh owDialog()
or use the PageSetupDialog

or better still, if as you wrote it's your own printer, then change the
default through "Printers and Faxes" within your operating system and
you won't need to worry too much about it.

There are a number of ways to do it, but you didn't state which version
of Visual Studio you're using. The help within VS2005 provides a heap
of help, with complete code examples, for this topic.

Regards,

ShaneO

There are 10 kinds of people - Those who understand Binary and those who
don't.

[Panos]

I' ll try it.

Thank u Shane()


"ShaneO" wrote:

Panos wrote:

Hi all,
I am trying to print a report in A4 paper, but my printer's default paper is
different (Letter 8.5 x 11 inches). So when i print, a significant part of
the paper remains blank, because of the different margins. Does anyone know
how to programmaticall y change the printer's default paper? Almost all
properties of the Printersettings Class on this matter are ReadOnly.

Thank u

Panos

Take a look at -

DefaultPageSett ings.PaperSize. PaperName

or maybe consider showing the User a Dialog where they can select the size -

PrintDialog1.Sh owDialog()
or use the PageSetupDialog

or better still, if as you wrote it's your own printer, then change the
default through "Printers and Faxes" within your operating system and
you won't need to worry too much about it.

There are a number of ways to do it, but you didn't state which version
of Visual Studio you're using. The help within VS2005 provides a heap
of help, with complete code examples, for this topic.

Regards,

ShaneO

There are 10 kinds of people - Those who understand Binary and those who
don't.

[Panos]

Hi Shane()

I tried the code, but still no luck. When i set the PaperName property to a
papername other than the default, i get an exception, which says that i have
to set the Kind property to custom. But Kind property is ReadOnly.
Any ideas?

"ShaneO" wrote:

Panos wrote:

Hi all,
I am trying to print a report in A4 paper, but my printer's default paper is
different (Letter 8.5 x 11 inches). So when i print, a significant part of
the paper remains blank, because of the different margins. Does anyone know
how to programmaticall y change the printer's default paper? Almost all
properties of the Printersettings Class on this matter are ReadOnly.

Thank u

Panos

Take a look at -

DefaultPageSett ings.PaperSize. PaperName

or maybe consider showing the User a Dialog where they can select the size -

PrintDialog1.Sh owDialog()
or use the PageSetupDialog

or better still, if as you wrote it's your own printer, then change the
default through "Printers and Faxes" within your operating system and
you won't need to worry too much about it.

There are a number of ways to do it, but you didn't state which version
of Visual Studio you're using. The help within VS2005 provides a heap
of help, with complete code examples, for this topic.

Regards,

ShaneO

There are 10 kinds of people - Those who understand Binary and those who
don't.