Printing spreadsheet (SPSS 16)

[Bianco, Joseph]

Dear List:

 

A colleague using SPSS 16 wants to print a modestly-sized spreadsheet (not just variable names, but the entire table of data). Her goal is to setup the printed pages to fit on  11 x 17 paper, but can’t find a way to override the print options in SPSS. I suggested exporting it into Excel and then printing it, but she encountered a problem with that as well. Any suggestions?
Thanks

Joe

[Maguin, Eugene]

Joe,

I want to be careful in my advice to you because I'm mad at spss for taking
out the printer setup control box that was in all prior versions. So,
jumping over what I think about that. I think that you will have to go to
Start --> Settings --> Printers and faxes, select the printer, right click
and select preferences. And from there you can fix up various things. Now,
once you do that you will need to go back and undo things for printing from
other programs, like word (unless you want to always reset the things you
changed.) This, of course, assumes that the printer supports 11x17. Now, a
few days ago ViAnn said that using vista and a local printer you could
define multiple virtual printers connected to a single physical printer.
Each virtual printer could be set up differently and would appear in the
spss printer selection menu. Why this is better I don't know. But ....

My network person said that that is extremely hard to impossible to do for
network printers on a non vista network. So, if you have a network
apparently you are ....

Gene Maguin


A colleague using SPSS 16 wants to print a modestly-sized spreadsheet (not
just variable names, but the entire table of data). Her goal is to setup the
printed pages to fit on  11 x 17 paper, but can't find a way to override the
print options in SPSS. I suggested exporting it into Excel and then printing
it, but she encountered a problem with that as well. Any suggestions?
Thanks

Joe

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[ViAnn Beadle]

SPSS didn't deliberately defeature the printer setup control dialog. The
switch to a completely portable Java backbone did that because it doesn't
support this Windows feature.

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Gene Maguin
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Subject: Re: Printing spreadsheet (SPSS 16)

Joe,

I want to be careful in my advice to you because I'm mad at spss for taking
out the printer setup control box that was in all prior versions. So,
jumping over what I think about that. I think that you will have to go to
Start --> Settings --> Printers and faxes, select the printer, right click
and select preferences. And from there you can fix up various things. Now,
once you do that you will need to go back and undo things for printing from
other programs, like word (unless you want to always reset the things you
changed.) This, of course, assumes that the printer supports 11x17. Now, a
few days ago ViAnn said that using vista and a local printer you could
define multiple virtual printers connected to a single physical printer.
Each virtual printer could be set up differently and would appear in the
spss printer selection menu. Why this is better I don't know. But ....

My network person said that that is extremely hard to impossible to do for
network printers on a non vista network. So, if you have a network
apparently you are ....

Gene Maguin


A colleague using SPSS 16 wants to print a modestly-sized spreadsheet (not
just variable names, but the entire table of data). Her goal is to setup the
printed pages to fit on  11 x 17 paper, but can't find a way to override the
print options in SPSS. I suggested exporting it into Excel and then printing
it, but she encountered a problem with that as well. Any suggestions?
Thanks

Joe

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[Maguin, Eugene]

ViAnn,

Thank you for the explanation. Things make sense now. Also, thank you for
pointing out the possibility of defing multiple virtual printers for a
single physical printer.

After I wrote the last reply I talked with our network person and he said
that defining virtual printers for a network printer would probably be
'medium' difficulty for him. So not what I said earlier. He did say that the
most important drawback is that since the printer is a network printer, the
virtual printers will also be network printers and will therefore be seen by
everybody on the network when they add a printer. So possible confusion.

Gene Maguin

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