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Carl, A Letterprinter 100 is a/k/a an LA100. The sequence <ESC>[2w is 12-pitch, which I *think* is the same as the LA50. But the LA100 is different from the LA50 in that it has interchangeable fonts (both in cartridges and in chip form). The machine in question may, possibly, not have a 12-pitch font installed. I think you can override that by sending <ESC>[?29l (note, lower case L, not 1) which enables "all pitches" mode instead of "current font pitches only" mode… you'd need to send that before the 12-pitch sequence. I'm still not 100% certain it would work, and what it might do is to print 10-pitch characters at 12-pitch, whichwouldn'tbeveryreadable 😉 There is something she can do that will cause the printer to do a self-test at power-up, which will list the installed fonts ("Dot Pattern Sets" or DPSes in LA100 verbiage). Unfortunately I don't remember what it is. -Bill