AutoPrint Data Directive - Prints TINY!

Hello all,

I have an SSRS report that is triggered to AutoPrint from a data directive I created. Everything works great and it prints to the specified printer I’m testing on…but it prints TINY, only filling up an inch x inch square in the center of my letter sized paper. HELP!! I imagine this is a web rendering issue since when I email the report as a pdf, it opens and prints properly on letter stock with no format issues.

I’ve checked the following:

  1. The width of the report body is less than letter width. I have also brought the left and right margins down to zero to troubleshoot:

  1. Looking at my BPM, the printer settings all seem to match:

printOptions

printSettings

I have also made sure the “consume whitespace container” in Report Builder is “True.”

Could testing with the client printer be causing me issues?

Since you are printing to a physical printer change your output format to EMF. I would also check the printer settings on the client under control panel>>devices and printers to see if the dimensions specified are different. Worst case you can try to autoprint to a server printer or PDF to see if there is a difference.

*If you change it to a server printer be sure to check the printer settings on the server and “printer setup” in E10.
*If you want to change it to auto PDF set your print action as “Auto Preview” instead of “Auto Print”

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