>I am also testing the HP Laserjet III driver. So far I'm not having any problem. But having a hard coded printer setup would cause problem if the user is not using a printer compatible to the selected driver.
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>I mean what happens if the user is using an Epson or something else? I could not force them to buy a prefferred printer just for the application program. Maybe some fellows using the same brand of printer could assist us on this.

I'm not sure what you mean by "hard coded". What I'm talking about is setting up a Windows printer (Start-Settings-Printers) to attach to the desired printer. If it's not an HP printer than you don't have the problem with the HP printer drivers. If it is an HP printer than under Properties specify the HP Laserjet III driver. You can also set up another Windows printer which connects to the same printer and uses the standard driver.

Make sure that the VFP program uses the printer connection with the Laserjet III driver. The simplest way of doing this is to select that printer as the default printer.

The downside to this is that you get 300 dpi resolution. If the user wants 600 dpi for use with another software product then they can select the other printer connection with the newer driver.

>Is there a way of asking the HP guys how compatible is their printers with VFP6.0? Better ,yet, the VPF authorities themselves.

Since this has been a known issue with HP drivers for many years I figured the HP guys are not interested so I never contacted them. But perhaps they are only lacking one more voice (yours) before they finally fix it.

MS says (rightly) that the problem lies with HP. You can also use the MS supplied HP drivers which seem to work ok.

Peter Robinson