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Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

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on 03 May 2018 19:09:05

The lay-out of printed dashboards and report pages is lost when you print the page. Proper printing functionality is still missing (may 2018). In my humble opinion this should be a priority.

Administrator on 03 Aug 2023 16:24:02

Paginated reports are designed for use cases intended for print. Consider using a paginated report when you need to print.

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Marius on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:04

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

Having proper printing functionality and the ability to fully print a table or matrix is crucial functionality for us, and is currently poorly supported in Power BI.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:42:54

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

Need to be able to print the entire contents of a Table or Matrix!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:42:52

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Or make the report available in excel

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TJarnigan on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:36

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

Users at my company would really like a way to be able to have a readable print out of different graphics on the dashboard or in reports. The current options available on the web print the entire page rather than just the visual -- and often the font is not a readable size. Is there something in development for this?

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Scott J on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:59

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Printing to PDF needs to be better supported - the current solution is not acceptable.

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Michael Hess on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:52

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Great application for sure. However, it misses widely because of no printing capability! This really should be a high priority!

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rlansing on 05 Jul 2020 22:30:04

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I think there are a few bugs that need to be addressed here. The team has blamed printer functionality as the reason this doesn't work properly. So the next best option is to export high resolution PDFs that can be printed on whatever printer. PDFs of a standard dimension would go a long way to solve this problem.

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Gunnar on 05 Jul 2020 22:29:36

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

This needs addressing and I can't understand why the previous posted idea with nearly 2000 votes marked as complete? The ability to print and share 1 or 2 page reports based on dashboards or PBI reports and bring into meetings is key for most users I can think of.

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JimmyA on 05 Jul 2020 22:29:35

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any updates to this? printing out a dashboard using a plotter printer is becoming a joke. can we please can a comment on where this is upto. moving to Power BI for our company has been a great move from excel, but people are starting to question is we should go back to the manual days...

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Frank Kwok on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:01

RE: Allow proper printing of Dashboards and report pages

The output of printing is ugly. (Print to PDF in Chrome)
I couldn't understand why MSFT have never fixed this problem

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