>In the process of converting a Foxpro 2.6 application into Visual Foxpro 6.0, I came across to the task of having to fill pre-printed forms on a dot matrix printer.
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>The problem arises when I try to send a "report form" command to the printer. Windows takes over and sends a series of control characters to the printer, and the dot-matrix printer tries to "draw" the text that will fill the form.
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>Question: Is there an easy way to have Visual FoxPro 6.0 send straight text to the dot-matrix printer?

Create an entry for the printer on the workstation using the Generic/Text Only printer driver, and direct your printed output to that Windows printer, so that Windows won't convert the output to a graphic image. If you want to do any print formatting (ie selecting font/pitch/etc) you'll have to send the print code yourself to the printer by putting the control sequence into the output stream.