>>First of all, it's very important that you tell us which version you use.
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>>Secondly, I suggest that you don't do it this way, I suggest that you use the report writer. But, if you use a dot matrix printer, the report writer is not easy to use. In thsi case I suggest that you print to a file, and then copy the file to the printer. Something like this

>>set alternate to dummy.txt
>>set console off
>>set alternate on
>>@  7,8 say "Date"
>>@  8,8 say "Payee Name"
>>@ 10,8 say "Amount In Words"
>>set alternate off
>>set alternate to
>>set console on
>>copy file dummy.txt tp lpt1:

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>Haven't played with this kind of printing for quite a while - nowadays I'd rather use textmerge - but IIRC Set Alternate would not catch @say output, only ? and ?? output.
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>Sonny's Set Print On and Set Device to print would be OK, he'd only have to
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>set print to dummy.txt
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>before Set Print On, and then copy file when he's done.

To be honest, I wasn't sure whether this would work or not. Just like you, I haven't done it this way for ages. Anyway, I think Sergey gave Sonny the simplest solution, namely to add the line SET PRINTER TO.