It seems to me that report formatting and printing need something of a rethink. Some of the basic formatting is difficult to read, whether displayed or printed, and what is appropriate for a report on the display is really not acceptable in a printed version of the same report.

DISPLAY AND PRINT
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1)  Where in any line of a report there is data that is wider than its column, the data is (quite correctly) wrapped into multiple lines.  The height of the line thus becomes equal to the height of the tallest column (a multi-line line!).  However, the text in each column is aligned to the centre of the vertical space, which is difficult to read - all text *should* be aligned to the top of the vertical space.


PRINT ONLY
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When printing a report, page breaks seem not to be handled at all.  Thus:- 

2)  When printing, a page break can occur in the middle of a line, leaving the top half of the line text at the bottom of the current page, and the bottom half of the same line text at the top of the next page.  (This effect has certainly been noted in a multi-line line;  I am unaware whether or not it can happen to a singleton line.)

There is a certain minimum amount of page-break handling that any user of printed reports is reasonably going to expect:

3)  The bottom line on every page of a report should include, at the very least, the page number, and preferably also the total number of pages in the report.  Eg "page 3 of 27".

3)  The top line of every page in the report (not just the first page)  should include the report title.

4)  The body of every page in a report (not just the first page) should be headed by the current set of columnar headings.