Printout a cluster control

Hello,
has anyone an idea how to printout a cluster control. When I print it with
"Append Control Image to Report" the I only have the empty frame printed
out.
regards
Marco

Are you using labVIEW 8.0??
There was a bug where in, the cluster was not properly saved while using append to control image.vi / get image method.
This was fixed in LabVIEW 8.2
Read this link for a suggested workaround in LabVIEW 8.0
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Dev

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XY Graph in Array.vi ‏13 KB

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