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Bill, Your intrepretation of what a printer driver does is exactly correct, they translate the standard codes into codes your printer understands…IF that can be done. In some cases…this is not a simple string translation but a code block that performs the equivalent task as was requested. Example, justified text….most printers can't automaticaly justify text (left and right) so if someone wanted to go to the trouble of writing a code block that did text justification then you could have a driver that supported text justification even if your particular printer didn't have that capability internaly. As to tabs…they aren't ESC sequences, so should go thru normaly, it is possible that the initialization string sets tab values for your printer to 0 so a tab would have no effect. Don