>>>This could be caused by the font being used on the report. Is the font True Type?
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>>The Font used throughout the report is a truetype font.
>>I saw a font called Lineprinter which is not a truetype font.
>>I'll try playing with different font styles.
>>I am printing on a "dot matrix"/"line printer" and i want printing to go as fast as possible.
>>Do you recommend the lineprinter font?
>>It is a printer font.
>>Thanks
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>This is a guess on my part, but I think that the lineprinter font would be the first thing I'd try.
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>Regarding the Notepad printing, since Notepad doesn't support different fonts, it makes sense that it would use the default printer font.
changing the font style in all the fields within a report to a printer font ...any printer font allowed me to control the print quality through the printer setup dialog ....
thanks a lot for the tip....

Dave