>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.

>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.
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>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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>Thanks, but there will be more Pirnter mysteries soon. Boy I hate printers....
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>Kind and grateful regards,
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>Marc

Just an opinion here, Marc. I don't feel that getting the output formatted correctly is part of my job or the problems I'm paid to solve. Back when you had to do the old "@row, col SAY" business, you also had to worry about what printer the thing was being hooked up to, besides just the format. In my mind, we've come an awful long way and I, for one, am very thankful.