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.
　

• New Report Links - The ExpressPrinting System now supports more then 30 different visual controls including Generic Containters such as Form, Frame, Panel, ExpressLayoutControl

　

• Report Persistence - With version 3, you can now Save/Load to/from File/Stream. This feature is instantly available to your end-users via the ExpressPrinting System's Preview Window.

　

• Report Explorer Technology - Our Report Explorers allows you to review/recall reports saved either to disk or a database (File Explorer or DB Explorer). They are linked to the TdxComponentPrinter which manages the DataSource for individual ReportLinks. These Explorers can be directly embedded into the PreviewWindow.

　

• Thumbnailed PageView in Preview Window

　

• Support for Express Styles and StyleSheets - Full native support for Styles and StyleSheets when used in association with the Grid5, QuantumTreeList4 and ExpressVerticalGrid3 on PS side

　

• Unwrap "Detail views" in ExpressQuantumGrid v5 - If a GridLevel has several SubLevels then all Levels will be printed one by one.

　

• 3 additional pagination modes for ExpressQuantumGrid v5 - By Rows, By TopLevel Groups and Custom (the appropriate event is fired during processing of each row in the Grid).

　

• 2 additional pagination modes for ExpressQuantumTreeList v4 - By Nodes and Custom (the appropriate event is fired during processing of each node in the TreeList).

　

• Full Custom Draw Support - Need a green bar like report? Simply use the extensive custom draw support to implement all types of effects such as green-bar, high-low threshold, and visual alerts using the rich custom draw event model of the ExpressPrinting System.

　

• Print Style Component - Using the new Print Style components, you can provide, several distinct presentation styles for each ReportLink. Even more, using runtime-customization, your users can create new styles on the fly and save them for later use, just like Microsoft does in Outlook®

　

• Header and Footer support - ExpressPrinting System gives you exquisite control over the presentation and positioning of page headers and footers. There is support for standard elements such as page numbers, dates, and times. Like all Developer Express products, the ExpressPrinting System includes extensive run-time customization, so your users can modify these headers and footers based upon their specific business needs.

　

• Page Setup Dialog - With the page setup dialog you can control virtually all aspects of printing. The page setup dialog supports the selection and creation of styles, selection of paper types, header/footer content and layout, and margins. No longer are these options hard or even impossible to control - the ExpressPrinting System makes it a breeze.

　

• Print Dialog - The enhanced print dialog gives you a high degree of control over what options are available when printing. Printer selection, output to file, page selection and collation are all there. You can even control what buttons are displayed or enabled, all through a convenient non-visual component interface.

　

• Engine Controller - The engine controller provides a quick and easy way to centrally control global properties for all reports that may be printed using the ExpressPrinting System. From this component you can control the look & feel, the path for saving custom settings, and Help file.

　

• Intelli-Zoom - Using a mouse equipped with a wheel, you can zoom in and out on your reports without entering magnification manually, or selecting it from a menu.

　

• Scaling Support - With built in Scaling support, the ExpressPrinting System allows your users to automatically scale individual reports to fit on one or more pages, as their needs dictate.

　

• Color, pattern, texture, and picture fills and backgrounds

　

• Multiple page viewing modes such as single, double, quad, etc.

　

• Custom scaling

　

• Intellimouse support

　

• Drag-and-drop margins

　

• Transparency support

　

• Open and extensible architecture