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Lee, It is possible to bypass the printer driver by opening the printer as an independent device instead of using the built-in's. Assuming that your printer is attached to the parallel port, you would open the device "PAR:" instead of "PRT:". This is covered a little bit in the "Generalized Device I/O" section of the AmigaBasic manual. (Chapter 5 in my book, pp 5-3 to 5-4.) You need to specify special characters such as the double-quote in their CHR$(x) equivalents. From memory, I believe that the doublequote is CHR$(34), but you can check it. You're running into the same trouble that printer-driver makers have with regard to whether the 2 in the manual is an ASCII 2 or CHR$(2). I've worked with printers where it was both in different commands. Usually, though, they are ASCII. The only way to find out for certain is to experiment. Your example string of ESC[2"z would most likely be coded as CHR$(27);"[2";CHR$(34);"z"; Using a Preferences driver is really the preferred way to use a printer on the Amiga. Have you checked the Printer Utilities DL (8) in the AmigaUser Forum for a driver specifically for your KX-P1124? It might pay off. There also used to be a printer driver generator program for 1.2 printer drivers, but I don't know whether it was ever updated for 1.3 or not. Hope this helps. 8) David