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Vic, I talked to Andy Finkel awhile back on just this subject. I was told in no uncertain terms that there is no intent to modify the parallel device (or printer) to be able to handle more than one printer. The problem seems to be that the current printer device is single threaded, an in order for you to have multiple printers attached, the printer device would need MAJOR changes. I was wanting to build a board the provided a couple extra parallel ports, and wanted to implement them is a system supportable manner. Andy told me that since there was no user demand for such, he was not interested in applying resources to it. So, if people would start hounding CBM to provide multi-printer (parallel) support in the OS, I'm more than willing to build the board to hook it to. I also agree that being able to render to a file is a very useful idea. John's problem would easily be solved by dumping to a file on the printer server, and then telling the server to print the file. -Dean