I have designed a Salary slip report by using Active reports- 2 for vb application downloaded from devsource360.com website. But while printing the same report from Epson300+ dot matrix printer the text is condensing and characters or overlapping, I have changed so many fonts and tested it. Is there any solution for this, kindly send it to me at [email protected] Thanking You

To Print a Database you would require to create a Report. There were many ways of creating reports in Visual Basic 6.0. Hereby I am giving you an example of Data Report.
Printing a Data Report
Printing a data report can be accomplished in one of two ways. The user can click the Print button that appears on the data report in Print Preview mode (using the Show method), or you can programmatically enable printing using the PrintReport method. If an error occurs during printing, trap it in the Error event.
Choosing to Display a Print Dialog Box
When printing a report programmatically, you have two choices: to print by displaying the Print dialog box, or by printing without displaying the dialog box.
To display the Print dialog box

1. Add a CommandButton to a Form.
2. In the button's Click event, place the following code.

DataReport1.PrintReport True The Print dialog box allows the user to select a printer, print to file, select a range of pages to print, and specify the number of copies to print.
Note Printers must be installed on the computer in order to present a choice of printers.

Printing Without a Dialog Box
In some cases, you may wish to print the report without user intervention. The PrintReport method also gives you the option of selecting a range of pages to print, either all, or a specified range.
To print without displaying the dialog box

1. Add a CommandButton to a Form.
2. In the button's Click event, place the following code:

DataReport1.PrintReport False
Or, to specify a range of pages to print, use the code below:
DataReport1.PrintReport False, rptRangeFromTo, 1, 2

you have to rebind the report on every postback.

in form_load put

if (Page.IsPostBack)
{
if (Session["currentReport"] != null)
{
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = Session["currentReport"];
CrystalReportViewer1.DataBind();
}
}

and when creating your report add this line
Session["currentReport"] = myReport;

You can open the Crystal Report (should be installed with Visual Studio first) after you designed your database, then you have to connect the Crystal Report to the right database (the one which you store financial information in your case), then you can create your report easily by putting the desired variables and designs. Then you have to call for that report with a code within visual basic.

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Dear friend you can get your answer easily in http://www.codeproject.com/
This website is all about .NET programming and VB and by a simple search you'll find your answer
Good luck

just make prn file or by crystal report



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The short answer is you can't do exactly what you have asked. There are many long answers. Here goes an overview. The data in VB is what you want to report on, that data is in a data base and Crystal Reports is the primo solution.
When you have it working CR and VB will be sharing the same data. VB crunches it and CR tells the world.
Get into CR design mode, for the fields in the reports tell it to use the db you have created and populated using VB .
All of the above is tough and unforgiving. I took a 2 day crash course on CR and left the training with nothing but two large manuals. VB has been my Nemesis for many years.

There is not a single answer to this question. Why? Because to be able to print yesterday's report depends on if the application that is in the terminal has been designed to allow you to do that. The only way to answer this question is to ask it of the customer support line of your processor. It may be that the only way to get that information is to have them print it out and mail it to you.

usually if you are using vb.net to make a application, it must included the crystal report component. you can use that component to create a customized reports. after you search the component but you cannot find it, maybe you need the crystal report application to create. Trying to find a crystal report application and install into your pc. you must be able to create a report after you installed this program.

Hello CPA,
The communications protocol may not be correct between VB6 and printer. Look in the Add-in Manager for the proper printer lib. Crystal is hard to work with from VB6. I know this is not much, but have you tried using the application wizard? Also there is a lot of information on MSN @ microsoft.