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Thanks, Tim. If I wasn't clear, 11.0 – 0.2 (top no print area) – 0.2 (bottom no print area) equals 10.6 inches. For width, 8.5 inches – 0.25 (left no print zone) – 0.25 (right no print zone) equals 8.0 inches. When you had a dot matrix printer before your laser printer, you must have had one of the models that could print from the left perf all the way to the right perf! – a full 8.5 inches. There are a number of dot matrix printers that do not do this. Guess what, the ones I owned do not – they only print 8 inches wide. I am used to having the quarter inch margin on both sides of the paper outside the print zone. Well, I went and modified the driver. In one density setting (6), the driver tells the system it can print the full size of the paper. When density == 6, the driver will eat the first 0.26 inches of each row. This is 80 dots at 300 dpi (10 bytes of data) – the only density this mode is allowed in. The cursor isn't move down 60 dots from the top of the page, either. Did some testing with ProPage (3) with a box that starts at 1.0,1.0 and extends to 7.5,10.0, border turned on (hairline) and the printed output matched up perfectly. Remember, this is only for graphic printing. It sounds like you want the same thing for text printing – no can do. You will have to take into account the existing 0.25 inch no print area on the left and right sides of the paper. With revision 1 of the driver (the one you have), the offsets for ProPage that work for me are x = -0.26 inches, y = -0.2 inches. Am pretty sure this only works correctly if the left 0.26 inches and the top 0.2 inches have white space. You should see how FinalCopy works. It knows letter size paper is 8.5×11.0, but it lets you set up the left, right, top, and bottom no print zones. This works excellently. You still set up your margins with respect to the paper size, but you don't have to worry about any offset problems like ProPage has. I hope to upload the revised driver today. [ MORE ]