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I have generated a report using ASP. Its a table having more than 1000 records. While taking a print out of this page, I want to display the header of the page (the company logo & the column names) everytime a new page is printed. Does anyone have a solution to this?...pls help.
Thank you
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If you find a good solution, please post it back here. This is an age old issue with the browser environment -- it does not cater to printed reports. Most solutions I`ve seen are quite complicated. The best solution I think is to have a server-side process that generates a PDF from the data. This actually isn`t that difficult to do, but like anything new to you, is completely abstract until you`ve done it once. Server-side PDF generation requires purchasing and installing fairly expensive third-party components. One popular one is ActivePDF.
I think you will find this Microsoft article useful. It describes the Style Sheet methods for controlling printing format--including page breaks.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dynstyle/printing.asp
If you know how many lines of data including your headers will fit per page, you can use a special printing style sheet to force page breaks every so many records, print the header row, then print another so many records, and so on.
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Oh, another thing that you may find useful is this free ActiveX tool:
http://www.meadroid.com/sx_intro.asp
What this does is allow you to temporarily remove the default browser header and footers that normally print. You can also set margins, orientation, etc -- programmatically within your ASP code.
This works well for sites where you have some control over your user base. For public use sites, the downside is that they will get a popup asking them to allow the ActiveX to install. Many users are scared to allow scripts to install--and for good reason. I`m using it, and it has not caused any problems.
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Archive Import (Simi) 
Troy Wolf
