Lisa, thanks for the reply.

It looks like the cause of most of my problems was the mix of different types of command. I've now eliminated _plength, and EJECT and am using the corresponding ??? escape commands instead.

>First of all there is no _pagelen system variable, is this something >that is used in the code or did you mean _plength?

You're right, I did mean _plength.

>I suppose there might be some problem with the SET PRINTER FONT if th >font height is not 6 lines to the inch. What happens if you take out >the printer font line?

I took that out as well and used the corresponding escape commands.

>I used to have a wide assortment of printer manuals and escape code >sequences available to me <s>. I don't at the moment but I think you >could probably find this out by looking in pcodes.dbf.

The Epson website (www.epson.com) is a very good source of manuals for old printers (including escape codes).

>I'm sort of concerned that you're issuing the draft instruction >*before* the reset -- wouldn't you want to d it the other way around?

You're right again, I reversed the lines and it seems to be ok now.

I have a few new (minor) outstanding, but I'll post them in a new thread.

Regards,
Alan