MarketDelta software has compatibility issues with certain printer drivers. If you find that printing does not function correctly, the best current workaround is to save the chart as a picture (from the main menu File | Save as Picture) and then open the picture for printing in Windows Picture Viewer or some similar utility.

Further Details

The Printing features of MarketDelta are minimal and are not “robust”. For chart printing, we generally recommend using the Save As | Picture command to produce PNG graphics image files that can be saved for future reference, and even printed if necessary by your web browser or other applications if desired. Quotepages can be saved as comma separated text files using File | Save |Save As Text, opened with MS Excel formatted in any way you wish for printing. MarketDelta is a real-time market analysis platform, printing features are minimal. They are not central to the focus of the software and have received very little attention from a software development perspective since they were originally developed in the 1990’s.

Printing of charts and quotepages generally works. We have been unable to determine the cause and have concluded that some of the internal software components we use to build our product are at fault. These are components from a 3^rd party company that we are unable to fix or replace. 

In your case, the problem may be as simple as not having setup a default printer in Windows. If you have a printer setup properly on your Windows system and can print fine from other applications but not with MarketDelta, you may just be one of the few who cannot print with the program due to these technical issues. There is one thing you can try. Quit  MarketDelta, locate the file named “print prefs” in the “admin” folder. On Windows XP, the admin folder is typically located in the investrt folder within Program Files, where you installed the MarketDelta software. On Windows Vista and Windows 7, there are admin folders in Program Files/investrt as well as inside your C:\Users\username\ folder inside the “MktDelta” folder. Delete print prefs from both locations if present, startup MarketDelta again and try to print a quotepage or chart window. Before printing from MarketDelta the very first time, try using the File: Page Setup command. This command opens a window where you can select the printer you wish MarketDelta to use when you employ the print command. See if your default printer is correctly specified there, and if not you should be able to pick the printer from the list presented there.