>>George,
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>>You are right of course, I meant 12 cpi. It's 10 point fonts, 12 cpi, keep mixing that up. The problem is not the printer, but the generic printer driver (I think). The printer is set to 12 cpi, so sending it codes is somehow against the rules of the generic printing if you see what I mean.
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>By this I assume that you mean that whatever physical controls (dip switches, font selection control panel, etc.) you have on the printer are set to 12 CPI. What about margins and/or line length? And is the output actually 10 or 12 CPI?

Well the same printer is used for the same purpose under DOS, so the installation of the printer is OK. I have to process the same document. The dos program does not set anything either. This is valid as a setup because this printer only processes one document.

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>I think that by "Generic" printer, they mean the old dot matrix type. Most of these conformed either to an Epson or IBM standard or had a means of emulating it for setting printer pitch, etc. So it's not really outside the rules.

Although to my limitted knowledge you'd better refrainf from that ... and use the ad hoc printer driver.

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>>But you can define the paper sizes. Gonna try that next. I think I solved something similar recently.

Yes. And this kind of does it ! So ... for the record, if you want to exceed the linelength that the generic printer allows you, (because it does not know that you are printing 12 CPI, even if you do give the codes though the device page of the printer wizzard), just increase the width through custom size.

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>I hope not too. Let me know if I can be of further help.

Thanks, but there will be more Pirnter mysteries soon. Boy I hate printers....

Kind and grateful regards,

Marc