Ho to set up a "Ghost" printer?

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4 total messages Started by Andy Mabbett Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:22

#381

Author: Andy Mabbett
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:22

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I have no printer on this machine, never having need of one.

However, I occasionally need to "print preview" (Access won't even let
me design a report without three being one installed) and Windows kindly
(!) won't let me do that without there being a printer installed. Is
there anyway to set up a "ghost" printer?
-- 
Andy Mabbett 

                 A 1998 survey of 48 restaurants' chicken tikka masalas 
                 found that the only common ingredient was chicken.

Re: Ho to set up a "Ghost" printer?

#382

Author: William Allen
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:49

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Andy Mabbett wrote in message
> I have no printer on this machine, never having need of one.
>
> However, I occasionally need to "print preview" (Access won't even let
> me design a report without three being one installed) and Windows kindly
> (!) won't let me do that without there being a printer installed. Is
> there anyway to set up a "ghost" printer?

Just install any printer you please from the Windows list that
comes up when you choose Add Printer. You don't _have_ to
print a test page, and you don't have to have a device connected
to a port to install a printer. In the Control Panel Printer applet
you can always set the output to a Disk File instead if you wish
then the "printer" will work, too.

If you install the Generic Text-Only printer from the standard
list, then the print files will be plain ASCII and readable, too.

Note that some software may not Print-Preview correctly if
you install the Generic Text-Only printer as the default printer,
since it will assume simple formatting. If this happens add
another Printer from the list and make it the default instead.

--
William Allen

Re: Ho to set up a "Ghost" printer?

#383

Author: Andy Mabbett
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:34

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In article <9hj47f$e6ijo$1@ID-55970.news.dfncis.de>, William Allen
<mail@mayfly13.fsnet.co.uk> writes

>Generic Text-Only printer

Just the job; thank you.

>In the Control Panel Printer applet
>you can always set the output to a Disk File instead if you wish
>then the "printer" will work, too.

Can't see a way to do this; do you mean I do that globally, or as a one-
of, each time I print something (which I do get a "print to file"
option)?

-- 
Andy Mabbett 

                 A 1998 survey of 48 restaurants' chicken tikka masalas 
                 found that the only common ingredient was chicken.

Re: Ho to set up a "Ghost" printer?

#385

Author: Andy Mabbett
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 01:00

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In article <9hj7j6$ecvl6$1@ID-55970.news.dfncis.de>, William Allen
<mail@mayfly13.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>"FILE (creates file on disk)."

Doh! Couldn't see for looking. Thanks again.
-- 
Andy Mabbett 

                 A 1998 survey of 48 restaurants' chicken tikka masalas 
                 found that the only common ingredient was chicken.

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