>Why don't you create a textfile (with or without reports) and send them to the printer with the desired printercodes? In this way you can store the invoice (in an invoice dir), and direct manipulate the printer by printercodes.

Well, that's a work around that will probably work. But I've already got a work around. What I'm really looking for is the underlying reason why the problem is happening so that I can correct it rather than work around it.

Besides, I take advantage of the fact that the dot-matrix printer can print in a bit-mapped mode to get a wider variety of fonts. Printing to an ASCII file eliminates my ability to control what's printed.