Yeah, I had just noticed that - we should have thought of that earlier. I saw that a CHR(27)+CHR(64) followed immediately by the below ignored the I-Prime command. Allowing a 2 second delay made it work OK. It was then I noticed the spooler popping up - Windows being once again too helpful. So much for 'print direct to printer'. Sigh. Glad you have it done.

>Thanks Jim, sending all of the codes in one shot instead of in separate ??? commands worked. It finally is working on all of the 3 forms that were exhibiting problems. Wish I had thought of that!
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>>Tracy, try a CHR(27)+CHR(125)+CHR(0) as a replacement for your 'reset'. If the I-Prime is at default, the buffer finishes printing, and the pitch and quality go to power on defaults.