Problem while printing MS Access Report on A4 page

I developed an application for a department where three tickets are generated on an A4 size paper which is pre-printed, i.e., 3 tickets are printed equally on the A4 paper. The paper thickness is approx. between 80-85 gsm.

Our application is having both options, either to print the tickets with full text (in case pre-printed stationary runs out of stock or any such problem) or print values only on the pre-printed sheet.

The application uses VB6 and MS Access Report for generating reports. The data to be printed on tickets is temporarily stored on a table and the MS Access Report retrieves it for printing.

As long as printing on blank A4 page with full text is considered, there is no problem. But as we insert the pre-printed sheet on which values only need to printed and are set with the dimensions of the pre-printed sheet, the problem occurs. The values get printed every time in a different position and to a large extent. They do not align to the printed text on the sheet. We took all the careful consideration while inserting paper, but all reports get printed with varying dimensions. The rows changes vastly.

What can be the problem? The printer is a new HP 1010 Laser printer. We enquired about this problem with some Desktop Publishing guys, some say that it might be the problem of the page thickness. Some say it might be the problem of the printer roller.

Suggest appropriate solution.

I would forget about using pre-printed stationery and just print your own. It's possibly cheaper to do it that way too.

It also means that you don't have to maintain 2 different reports to do basically the same thing.

Have you tried printing the full report on pre-printed paper to see how that lines up?

I don't think that printing full text on black paper is cheaper. You are consuming Printer Toner at a much rapid rate then just printing values on a printed sheet.

It's true you're using more toner, but what about the extra cost of having stationery pre-printed?

We've found it much cheaper to print our own stationery. The nice thing about printing it yourself is that you can change the format any time you like without having to wait until your stocks of pre-printed stationery are used up and then paying some company to re-print your new format.

It works for us. :wave:

We got the printing in GREEN color. While using full-text printing we have option of black printing only.

Secondly, if we get the full-text (excluding values) from the report and get it photocopied, then I think the problem will get rectified to some extent.