>In your printer's Port settings (on the DETAILS page of it's properties sheet), try de-selecting "Spool MS-DOS print jobs" . It did the trick for me. Printing will start immediately for DOS programs, but Windows programs will still spool.

Jerry,
Thanks for your reply. I tried that setting but there is a major problem with it. If you print more than one job or you print a long job you can get a printer not ready error when the printer's buffer is full.
John.