Robert,

These OKI 600's? The ones which require the Windows software to manage them?

I didn'thave a problem with freezing, but quite frequently they would "sulk" and the beastie would have to be rebooted. They were also subject timeout errors. I generally like OKI printers, but thisset in that particular office were not happy.

One morething. Go into the BIOS and check the settings for your parallel port. I had to turn off all the samrt stuff and make it "dumb". That improved things.

HTH - Miles

>Customer calls saying his vfp program (.exe) file was working for him for the past two months. He purchased a new Okidata Laser printer and everytime he went into the program it locked up windows requiring a recycle of power.
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>Two days later another call from another customer - same problem but with a Okidata dot matrix.
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>In both cases I had the users add a second printer (HP4 for the laser and Epson for the dot-matrix) and haven't had a problem since. (Yes I know about he HP issue but I'm using the =fpreset() call with success.)
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>Went back and put the Okidatas back in and both froze windows!
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>Anyone else having similar problems?
>Robert