Simon,
Are you comparing apples with apples (in other words, are the pages you print from VFP exactly the same as those from Word)? Printing depends on the amount of graphics on the page, so perhaps you have a logo or specialized font on your letters?

Barbara

>Hi
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>I am using VBA from VFP6 to print some form letters using Word97. I have to print 1000 letters. The process goes fairly quickly and my program & Word finish within several minutes. However, printing takes several hours. When I print from VFP without Word 97 the printing speed on the HP network laser is about 16pages/minutes. When the documents have been printed and spooled from Word 97 the print speed is only 3pages/minute. Why are the print jobs so much slower when spooled by Word than from VFP?
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>Is there anyway to increase the speed? I have changed the print priority but with little or not increase in speed. I am running under Windows NT 4 SP4.
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>Thanks
>Simon White