Poor quality printing report with photo

[Jim S]

Access 2007 - I am using an attachment field to link to a photos. I have
tried jpg, png and tif format. All are good quality in the Report View and
Layout View, but in Print Preview they have jagged red streaks through the
photo and print with those streaks on most printers. i have found one printe
that for some reason seems to print the report ok, but it doesn't handle the
paper we want to use. Anyone have any idea or have experience a similar
occurance. If I embed the photo it works ok, but makes the database huge.

 

[Larry Linson]

Access 2007 - I am using an attachment field to link to a photos. I have
tried jpg, png and tif format. All are good quality in the Report View
and
Layout View, but in Print Preview they have jagged red streaks through the
photo and print with those streaks on most printers. i have found one
printe
that for some reason seems to print the report ok, but it doesn't handle
the
paper we want to use. Anyone have any idea or have experience a similar
occurance. If I embed the photo it works ok, but makes the database huge.

This pre-dates Access 2007 and attachments, but for me and for others, it
works well with good rendering of the pictures. As I have no experience with
attachments or other Access 2007 features, I am not able to assist with
those topics.

The sample imaging databases at http://accdevel.tripod.com illustrate three
approaches to handling images in Access, and the download includes an
article discussing considerations in choosing an approach. Two of the
approaches do not use OLE Objects and, thus, avoid the database bloat, and
some other problems, associated with images in OLE Objects.

If you are printing the images in reports, to avoid memory leakage, you
should also see MVP Stephen Lebans' http://www.lebans.com/printfailures.htm.
PrintFailure.zip is an Access97 MDB containing a report that fails during
the Access formatting process prior to being spooled to the Printer Driver.
This MDB also contains code showing how to convert the contents of the Image
control to a Bitmap file prior to printing. This helps alleviate the "Out of
Memory" error that can popup when printing image intensive reports.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP