Printing a wide Interactive Report

Hello,
I have an interactive report which has more than 50 columns on it. In Firefox, when I send it to printer by selecting File/Print, it only prints first page while I am expecting it to print rest of the columns on the second page. Has anyone experienced this sort of problem before?
Thank you
ezr

Your are printing HTML when you do a print from an IR Report or any report in APEX.. You will need to look at getting a print server engaged with your application, this would be something like FOP, BI Publisher or moving reports to something like jasperreports..
These will allow you some more control over printing reports..
Thank you,
Tony Miller
Webster, TX
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