>>Although I haven't tested it yet, I was under the impression that printing to a dot matrix under Windows was excruciatingly slow.
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Under Win9x, you can define a Generic/Text Only printer type, and then define a few specific properties by editing the Property sheet, defining a printer model on the Device Options tab, and setting the control sequences supported on the Fonts tab - this is not portable to NT, and the controllable options are very limited.

>Hi Michael,
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>Yes and No.
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>If you want to print your reports exactly as they appear on the preview (wysiwyg), then it will be slow.
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>However, if you forego the nice formatting and are willing to do things "by hand" (i.e. set bold, compressed, etc.) and feed the printer with "?" and "??", the reports will fly at whatever cps the printer is rated for. Note that in this scenario you have to use the "generic/text only" printer driver (supplied with windows).
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>Alex