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While talking with Mike @ Oxxi, he told me the reason for the current printer handling in SBPro4. It's to keep it the "same" as the Windows version. MS-DOS systems as you are no doubt aware are forced to have a set of printer drivers for each application the user wants to run. The same philosophy seems to be applied in the Amiga version of SBPRO. I, though, believe there are enough in the way of differences between the versions for the two disparate platforms to warrant one more… this being supporting printers in the "standard" way on the Amiga. The problem with using "prefs" as the default printer as I have experienced it is that when you send an escape sequence like <ESC>2w to set the print pitch to elite only the <ESC> and 2 make it to the printer as part of the command, the "w" is sent as printable data. This type of procedure works fine in a text file sent to the printer with TYPE or COPY, etc. Jim