Hi Ed,
Just curious about the suggestion to use the _fpreset function. What's your thinking on this? BTW, I use your DIRPRTCLASS lib and it is great. Too bad printing in VFP is such mess that you even need it, but it has made my DOS app conversion into a managable project instead of: 1) program, 2) drinking binge to numb brain, 3) recover from binge, 4) repeat as needed.
Rich

>>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
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>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.