export to excel + printers

Tomas
Tomas Member Posts: 420
edited 2008-08-15 in NAV/Navision Classic Client
I have noticed that export to excel (let's say using defaul reports in nav) takes considerably longer (or shorter) time if we change default printers.

Have anyone else noticed this thing? Is NAV communicating with printer even if we do not print report (just preview/export to excel)?
Tomas,
Dynamics NAV Enthusiast

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  • ara3n
    ara3n Member Posts: 9,258
    it still uses the printer drivers for render the page in preview mode.
    if you don't have a printer on a computer, you can't preview.
    Ahmed Rashed Amini
    Independent Consultant/Developer


    blog: https://dynamicsuser.net/nav/b/ara3n
  • Tomas
    Tomas Member Posts: 420
    but when the difference of exporting to excel expans into 5-10 minutes, you start to think there is something wrong with it
    Tomas,
    Dynamics NAV Enthusiast
  • ara3n
    ara3n Member Posts: 9,258
    As far as longer or short, there are other things that could be the cause, change the report to processing only and export to excel.
    Ahmed Rashed Amini
    Independent Consultant/Developer


    blog: https://dynamicsuser.net/nav/b/ara3n
  • Tomas
    Tomas Member Posts: 420
    i have tried setting processing only as yes.

    still, with one printer export process to excel is considerably long and with another (when printer is set to default) is relatively fast.
    Tomas,
    Dynamics NAV Enthusiast
  • ara3n
    ara3n Member Posts: 9,258
    Which version are you running this? 5.0?
    Ahmed Rashed Amini
    Independent Consultant/Developer


    blog: https://dynamicsuser.net/nav/b/ara3n
  • AlexWiley
    AlexWiley Member Posts: 230
    What are the two drivers? Is one a local driver and the other a network driver?

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