File...Print and print icon do different things

[Stan Brown]

I have Win XP Pro SP2, and a printer with duplexing capabilities.
In Settings>Printers and Faxes I set the printer default to duplex.

Every program I have prints in duplex when I click the printer
icon. That includes Word 2003 and Excel 2003. There's only one
exception: Access 2003. WhenI just click the printer icon it prints
to the right printer, but in simplex one side of the paper); if I
remember to do File>Print and simply click OK, it prints in duplex.

So obviously Access knows about my printer settings, but for some
reason it changes them when I just click the Printer icon. I've
posted in the Access group but no response. Can someone help?

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/

[Byte]

Have you checked the URL (website) of the printer manufacturer for tech
support? They may have the answer there.
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I'm no expert, but I did stay at
the Holiday Inn Express last night.


"Stan Brown" wrote:

> I have Win XP Pro SP2, and a printer with duplexing capabilities.
> In Settings>Printers and Faxes I set the printer default to duplex.
>
> Every program I have prints in duplex when I click the printer
> icon. That includes Word 2003 and Excel 2003. There's only one
> exception: Access 2003. WhenI just click the printer icon it prints
> to the right printer, but in simplex one side of the paper); if I
> remember to do File>Print and simply click OK, it prints in duplex.
>
> So obviously Access knows about my printer settings, but for some
> reason it changes them when I just click the Printer icon. I've
> posted in the Access group but no response. Can someone help?
>
> --
>
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com/
>

[Stan Brown]

"=?Utf-8?B?Qnl0ZQ==?=" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax:
>"Stan Brown" wrote:
>
>> I have Win XP Pro SP2, and a printer with duplexing capabilities.
>> In Settings>Printers and Faxes I set the printer default to duplex.
>>
>> Every program I have prints in duplex when I click the printer
>> icon. That includes Word 2003 and Excel 2003. There's only one
>> exception: Access 2003. WhenI just click the printer icon it prints
>> to the right printer, but in simplex one side of the paper); if I
>> remember to do File>Print and simply click OK, it prints in duplex.
>>
>> So obviously Access knows about my printer settings, but for some
>> reason it changes them when I just click the Printer icon. I've
>> posted in the Access group but no response. Can someone help?

>Have you checked the URL (website) of the printer manufacturer for tech
>support? They may have the answer there.

Thanks for responding.

Yes, I did, but I was unsurprised that they don't. This looks to me
like an Access problem. (It wasn't a total loss; there was some
unrelated but interesting information there.)

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/