Duplex Printing in VB.NET

[steveh]

Morning all

Does anybody do duplex printing in VB.NET? our VB6 version used to do it with no problem but with VB.NET it is printing the reverse page upside down whether it is set to vbPRDPHorizontal (which I believe is the right option) or vbPRDPVertical (Which I beleive is thw wrong option). The MSDN page says:-

"When you use horizontal duplex printing, the tops of both sides of the page are on the same end of the sheet. When you use vertical duplex printing, the bottom of one page is at the same end of the sheet as the top of the next page"

The full article is here Printer Duplex Property

TIA

[HansV]

I have no experience with VB.NET, but does it make a difference if you use the value 2 instead of vbPRDPHorizontal?

[steveh]

I have no experience with VB.NET, but does it make a difference if you use the value 2 instead of vbPRDPHorizontal?

Hi HansV

thanks for looking, the starting point was using 2 and we have also tried 3 on the off chance but neither number or charachter is working for us

[HansV]

I'm afraid I can't help with this. Let's see if someone else has a suggestion.

[Rudi]

The full article is here Printer Duplex Property

TIA

I might be completely wrong here, but in the odd chance that it helps...
I notice that you link points to VB6 code, where you are querying for help on VB.NET. Have you looked at help in the VB.NET forum...something like this: set-printer-duplex-using-vbnet.

[steveh]

The full article is here Printer Duplex Property

TIA

I might be completely wrong here, but in the odd chance that it helps...
I notice that you link points to VB6 code, where you are querying for help on VB.NET. Have you looked at help in the VB.NET forum...something like this: set-printer-duplex-using-vbnet.

Hi Rudi

Thanks for the link but the link I gave above is for Visual Basics 2012 which I believe is .NET bacause the print commands in VB6 were different to these

Our program guy has somehow fixed it but even he doesn't know how or why, he said he was 'playing around' all day and it suddenly worked and the only thing he can think is that he changed the code to be global? Thanks again for looking though