>Thanks for the reply. Further, do you know of any control that will return information about the connected printer. And while we are at it - what I would really like to have is a control for a better printer dialog box, with access to all of the printer features. The native VFP control is severely limited. TIA.

In general there is no way to tell if an installed printer is dot or laser. (or ink jet, thermal, ...). One approach I have used in the past is to store information like that in a table; when a user goes to print for the first time to that printer, the program asks the user, who is in a position to know.

As for printer dialog, you can call up the Windows print manager dialog so you're getting exactly the same settings as in Windows itself.

Although I haven't used it, I understand there is a "Fox Power Printer" utility available which has been referenced here in various threads.