>>I think this goes for the printer manufacturer this time - didn't include
>>printer fonts, relying on the windows to supply the rasterizing. It makes a
>>cheaper printer, which then isn't capable of printing simple ascii pages.
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>Is Windows capable of supplying the raserizing of simple ascii if knowing it's supposed to do so? Is there a chekbox missing from the printer driver setup screen that if checked could signal Windows to handle this itself?

We had only one customer who wanted to buy a WO printer, and he was just easy to convince to buy some other printer, so I never had this trouble myself. The only way I know is using Notepad (or any other windows .exe capable of that) to do the printing for you. Don't know what will it look like, if Notepad flashes over your screen. You may try

run start /p myfile.txt

Or there may be other parameters given to the start command so Notepad doesn't show up. I've used Netscape for printing HTML files from FPD2.6, and it did jump into Windows every time (couldn't hide the "Printing page..." dialog).