ALV report - Print issues

When trying to print an ALV report (Ctrl+P), printer has issues due to the shading (backgound colors) of the report.
So here is my question,
Is there a way to supress the report formatting while printing?
or
Can you convert an ALV into an unfomatted basic report?

In the output screen
GOTO LIST IN THE MENU
SELECT EXPORT IN IT
THEN SELECT EXPORT SPREAD SHEET
to get other basic format for the alv output.

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I am facing issue while printing the ALV report. The no. of columns in output are dynamic.
System is giving the printout for 9 columns . If no. of columns are increasing than its printing only one line with garbage values.
Can anybody help to fix this issue. We need print of 27 (3 static + 24 dynamic (for 12 months)) columns in one go.
Thanks in advance,
Vijeta
Moderator message - Moved to the correct forum
Edited by: Rob Burbank on Jun 9, 2009 9:30 AM

Hi
The font size depends on the format you've choosen for the print.
The abap list arranges the page as grid: colunmXrow.
Every colunm of a page means a character.
If you use the standard format X_65_200, it means you're page is arranged for 65 row and 200 colunm:
that means the size of a character is optimized to can print 200 chararcter in a A4 page.
If you use the standard format X_65_132 it means you're page is arranged for 65 row and132 colunm:
that means the size of a character is optimized to can print 132 chararcter in a A4 page.
So that mean the size of format X_65_132 will be bigger than X_65_200, because in the same space (page A4) it needs to write 132 char instead of 200.
If your report print NN char, u should use the format wiith number colunm is closer to NN.
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We have written an ABAP ALV report to extract information from any number of Sales Orders from a given set of criteria. A number of layouts have been created. The layouts have been defined by the business (as they wanted the same format as they were previously used to). The default layout is about 337 columns wide, thus sending it over the 255 A4 limit. I can print the layout on an A4 landscape on 2 sheets of paper, but this is not practical when you have up to 30 pages of content (thus 60 sheets of A4 paper).
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Secondly, what is the List Driver checkbox used for on the Format Type (other than to show the portrait and landscape page types)?
I do tend to scan these forums before posting, but in this case I have not managed to resolve this by looking in the Forum or elsewhere.
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Hi
Due to getting no joy with this, I ended up creating an A3 Smartform and using a Windows printer capable of printing it. I also have the option of an A4 or A3 sheet in the Selection Screen, so this gives me the output in the format that was needed.
Defining a Printer Output definition proved too tricky and I had to find a way to do it.
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