>A customer of mine has both a Brother Laser printer and an Epson tmt 88 printer on a Point Of sale pc. I regularly get an illegal operation error
>after printing to the laser printer which is on a second Printer card in the pc. I am operating win 98. I have to switch between printer to open the cash drawer which is opening vis the epson printer .Has anybody experienced any similar difficulties

You might want to try calling _fpreset() between printer calls; alternatively, if your handling of the POS printer involves direct print codes, you might try using my DIRPRTCLASS to handle the POS printer outside the normal VFP print environment.