Adding watermark to a Access report page - ms-access

Question

I am trying to add a watermark to an Access report using the "Picture" property and have run into an issue. The following code works and the image is displayed/printed when the report is previewed and printed but does not work when the report is directly printed from a macro (nothing visible on-screen). "GrandTotal" is a bound text box on the report that is the sum of a field in the record source. I would appreciate any suggestion to print the watermark from both the print preview and the print macro.
Private Sub Report_Load
' put up the watermark if needed
If GrandTotal.Value < 2000 Then
Me.Picture = <<picture file name including full path>>
End If
End Sub

Answer 1

Since you are printing the report without it ever rendering to the screen the open/load events are never fired because they are never used. An alternative could be to open the report in print preview and use the OpenArgs to indicate you want to print it
Private Sub SomeButton_Click()
DoCmd.OpenReport "DetailView", acViewPreview, , , acHidden, "Print"
End Sub
then do your normal loading stuff
Private Sub Report_Load
' put up the watermark if needed
If GrandTotal.Value < 2000 Then
Me.Picture = <<picture file name including full path>>
End If
End Sub
and when the loading is done your form will Activate which is when you can print
Private Sub Report_Activate()
If Me.OpenArgs = "Print" Then
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
DoCmd.OpenReport "Report1", acViewPreview
'Opens print dialog for current screen (report in this case):
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdPrint
End If
DoCmd.Close
ErrorHandler:
If Err.Number <> 0 And Err.Number <> 2501 Then
MsgBox "Error: " & Err.Number & vbNewLine & Err.Description
Exit Sub
End If
End Sub
The form is never shown so it looks like you had it set up before but the load/open events will fire like normal because the report is actually rendered.