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Error printing excel file from VB6

Asked by Soutie in Visual Basic Programming

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Hi experts, I'm hoping someone can help me out with a particularly strange problem i have. a while ago I created a service using VB6 which runs in the background and creates reports using excel when a particular event is fired off, this works perfectly.  We now need to, aswel as save the excel file, print it automatically to the default printer on the machine.  When i step through the code everything runs perfectly and it saves and prints the excel file perfectly, but once compiled i get the following error in the event log (the service is configured to write to the event log)

"error 1004 - No printers are installed. to install a printer, point to settings on the windows startmenu, click printers and then double click add printer. Follow the instructions on the wizard."

the funny thing is that there are two Printers installed on this machine.

ill attach a code snippit of the offending part of code
is there anyway to force the service to pick up the printer to use of is it impossible to call the print function from within the service when it is compiled?Start Free Trial 
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Dim xls2
Set xls2 = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
xls2.Workbooks.Open App.path & "\" & Report(n).TemplateName 'open the Report Template
 
xls2.Worksheets(1).Activate
 
'Code to fill data in the report here
 
xls2.DisplayAlerts = False
 
xls2.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Report(n).ReportsPath & Report(n).Reportname
 
If Report(n).Autoprint = "Yes" Or Report(n).Autoprint = "yes" Then
    xls2.Worksheets(1).PrintOut Copies:=1, ActivePrinter:=DefaultPrinter
End If
 
xls2.DisplayAlerts = True
xls2.ScreenUpdating = True
xls2.Application.Quit 'close excel without saving
Set xls2 = Nothing
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