I notice a lot of folks on this forum use Devexpress Xtrareports as their report writer. Having looked at a few report writers, I am now seriously considering XtraReports. One issue that would cause concern me is the apparent lack of support for Dot Matrix Printers. A lot of our users still use Dot Matrix printers and will not be convinced to change. I have seen a few threads on the Devexprress fora ehich suggest that Dot Matrix Printers are not supported. Wondering here if anybody knoes if that is the case, and if so, are there any workarounds .?

XtraReports is well worth the money and head and shoulders above CrystalReports.  If you can print from the other applications I bet XtraReports wouldn't have any problems because it opens the exact same Windows print dialog as Word, Excel, etc.  We use XtraReports and our users love it.  However, now that I think about it I don't (or just haven't yet) used SF BO as the datasource, just becuase I usually end up writing custom views, stored procedures, or complex join statements for the reports and I have found simpler to just use a VS dataset. 

Jason Seidell

Programmer/Analyst

Infinedi

Thanks for all your replies re Xtra reports. I have downloaded a version and am doing some testing currenlty.

It would appear to be quite powerful although quite different to what I have been used to (R&R)

I would be interested in any Gotchas or any areas that cuase problems. Typicall we will need it to set up standard reports for our App, but also to embed it and let end users use it