First you need to determine how many points you want per page.  Then you can use the Chart1.MaxPointsPerPage property to split the whole chart in several pages. Finally, you can use a loop to print all the pages using the NumPages and Page properties.

DELPHI CODE:

Chart1.MaxPointsPerPage:= 100;
for t:=1 to Chart1.NumPages do
begin
  Chart1.Page:=t;
  Chart1.PrintLandscape;
end;

CBUILDER CODE:

Chart1->MaxPointsPerPage=100;
for (int t=1;t<=Chart1->NumPages;t++)
{
  Chart1->Page=t;
  Chart1->PrintLandscape();
}

For each different Series type there is a solution. If your printer has good "grey-scale" printing output, you might just need to select
good colors for each different level of gray. The best solution, though, is to select a different Brush.Style for each Series.  For example, the Pie Series has a "UsePatterns" property which plots each Pie slice using a different pattern style.

Windows provides only 6 different patterns (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, etc) . Now in TeeChart Pro 4.0 you can use the Brush.Bitmap property to fill points using your custom "patterns" in bitmap (picture) format. Thousands of freeware patterns can be found at many internet web sites (marble,wood, water, iron, etc).

By default, TeeChart prints charts in "wysiwyg" style ( What You See Is What You Get ). This means if your chart is bigger, your printed chart will have Font Sizes smaller. If you print the same chart on another PC with a different screen resolution, the printed output will reflect so.

To avoid any scaling, and to make the printed chart to look always the same, you can just create a Delphi's (or C++ Builder) TMetafile object, draw the Chart onto it, and then print the resulting TMetafile image. You can also use a TBitmap image instead of a TMetafile. Some printers have bugs when printing metafiles depending on the Windows version, printer driver and so on. Creating the metafile image and sending it to the Printer.Canvas gives you total control on the Chart and paper dimensions.

See Delphi's (or C++ Builder) documentation about TMetafile and TPrinter objects.

DELPHI CODE:

var Meta      :TMetafile;
    tmpH,tmpW : LongInt;
begin
  Meta:=Chart1.TeeCreateMetafile(True,Rect(0,0,tmpW,tmpH));
  try
    Printer.BeginDoc;
    try
      Printer.Canvas.StretchDraw(Rect(1000,1000,2000,2000)
       ,Meta);
    finally
      Printer.EndDoc; 
    end;
  finally
    Meta.Free;
  end;
end;

CBUILDER CODE:

This problem happens mostly only in Delphi 1 16bit.

Yes. Ratio width to height in paper printer units should be the same than screen for rotated labels to show at a good position. It happens when this ratio is different, Windows "stretches" the metafile, so the bottom coordinate of the axis label is "moved" far more bottom than
it should.

Ratio = Chart1.ChartWidth / Chart1.ChartHeight

There is an example of "proportional printing" at www.steema.com technical page. (The "printing better" example). It might work fine with your printer. HP printer drivers that come with NT4 are buggy, and HP has replacements at their www site.

See also this FAQ question:
"I want printed Charts to look the same on different screen resolutions and chart sizes. How ? "

Yes.
Windows 16bit does not allow clipping when printing using metafiles.

Workarounds are to use a TBitmap image for printing, or using Windows 95B (OSR2) and setting the TeeChart clipping global variables to True.

Clipping also depends on your printer model and driver. Some printer drivers do not implement metafile clipping or implement it buggy.

DELPHI CODE:

Chart1.ClipPoints:=True;
TeeClipWhenPrinting:=True;
TeeClipWhenMetafiling:=True;
Chart1.Print;

CBUILDER CODE:

This bug has been fixed in TeeChart Pro 4.0

You can overcome this by resetting the Printer.Canvas.Font color and size after printing each chart.

Mr.Glenn Bennes ( gjbenes@infocompii.com ) comments:

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