>Dragan:
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>Thanks for your reponse. I tried your suggestions and the problem persists. I printed the text files which the reports created from both the DOS edit program and the windows notepade program and both printed just fine.

One thing to try is VFP's "type {your textfile here} to print" command, to see if it's raw printing from Fox or your app.

>However, the output from within the application still insists on printing black boxes. I also too the application home and printed the output to my laser printer with the same result. (I'm printing from an Epson dot matrix printer at work). I also tried the SET PRINTER FONT "courier", 12 command - again, no help.

Mmmm... could it be your printer driver speaks a completely different language, incompatible with @say? I've actually never done @say directly to printer, it was always

set print to (lcTxtFileName)
set device to print

and I sent the file to print later, using various methods, but in DOS days it was mostly low-level printing using fopen(), fread() and ?? or ???.
I'm curious to know whether Sergey's suggestion works - I never needed the Style clause, and can't really remember what does it do.