ExpressPrinting System - What you see is what you get

ExpressPrinting System

What you see is what you get

The ExpressPrinting System is an advanced data rendering and printing system specifically designed to bring your UI to the printed page. Via its Report Link technology, the ExpressPrinting System allows you to output the contents of VCL controls such as the ExpressQuantumGrid and ExpressMasterView -- as well as many others -- to paper, while giving you and your users immaculate control over print attributes such as Font, Color, Headers, and Footers.

Like all Developer Express technologies, the ExpressPrinting System helps you put control back into the hands of your end-users via a runtime interface that is easy to use, with an astounding level of flexibility. It gives you the power to quickly add unlimited reporting to your programs without designing a single report!

When you combine the ExpressPrinting System with the ExpressQuantumGrid or ExpressMasterView, you get the threefold benefit of eliminating the tedium associated with creating traditional banded reports, greatly reducing development time, and putting flexibility back into the hands of your users. No longer will you have to create and re-create reports because of simple changes to your database or requests by users to group/sort data by new columns. No longer will you have to pull your hair out when a user requests a new report that was not in the original spec. By combining the ExpressPrinting System with the QuantumGrid and/or MasterView controls, your end-users can arrange data in any manner they see fit, and then print the contents of the control exactly as it appears on-screen.

Total Control, Flexibility and Power
The No Limits Reporting and Presentation System for the VCL

Features and Benefits

The ExpressPrinting System allows you to transform your existing user interface into eye-catching reports that closely resemble the elements of your application users see everyday. When coupled with the ExpressQuantumGrid/ExpressQuantumTreeList and ExpressMasterView, the ExpressPrinting System becomes a tabular reporting tool of unprecedented flexibility.

The ExpressPrinting System was designed with the same attention to detail and easy-to-use features as all other Developer Express products. Only a few steps are needed to add the full-featured printing functionality of the ExpressPrinting System to your applications. The first step is to drop a dxComponentPrinter component onto a form. Second, create a new report link and link it to the component you want to print via property settings. Finally, in an appropriate event handler, insert a call to the Preview method of the dxComponentPrinter component. Presto! A professional and polished view of your component as it will be printed appears on screen.