>They all have the Lexmark dot-matrix printers, and they can't be updated now to newer, more modern printers. I'm
>trying to find a reason for the slower printing with the VFP version over the DOS version.
My understanding is that the DOS version just sends characters to the printer: the Windows version sends bitmaps (or something) of the characters. That's why the printing takes so much longer.
Have you tried using the Generic/Text printer driver?