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Betty, all the latest Canon printers offer 3 emulations. Only two emulations are usualy mentioned to the user: BJ and Epson. However, in order to make real use of the printer, you have to use the third emulation available. This emulation is called "Native" or more recently "Extended". Now you surely can use the printer in Epson emulation and you shouldn't have any major problem. However, if you want to print gfx in fast speed and high quality, Extended Emulation is MUCH better. That's what you get when setting the emulation in CanonPref to 600e (or any other printer listed). There is a MAJOR drawback to the Extended Emualtion: you can't mix text and graphics on the same page. If you try to print text after printing graphics in Extended Emulation, the best you get is a blank page. You also might get weird characters printer. There is no way I can get this thing working neither does Canon's Windows driver. The MS Windows driver simply prints text as graphics. I'm afraid I haven't found a similar method yet on the Amiga because of restrictions in the printer.device. So, decide yourself… either use Epson emulation all the time, or deal with the extra work of switching emulations. From my experience, the extra work is worth the better quality in Extended Emulation. Most users usualy run word processors nowadays able to print text in good quality as graphics. It definitly is NOT a bug in the software. Beside: in order to avoid most of the problems, I wrote Canon Extended Emulation drivers for PGS and Studio. In these cases you can leave the printer driver to whatever emulation you like. The PGS or Studio output module will automaticly switch to Extended Emulation and back.