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Jason, The Courier 12 panel font on your deskjet is 12 pitch not 12 point. Our Elite font was designed to closely match the internal 12 pitch fonts in printers. When we designed multiple pitches into ProWrite we used the pica pitch as the standard and tied that into the width of the Topaz 11 font (8 pixels) The elite font would be perfectly WYSIWYG if we had access to a 6.66 pixel wide screen font unfortunately we do not. Our Elite font is a comprimise at 7 pixels in width but this comprimise carries with it a degree error. Turning on the "Optimal Spacing" option with cause ProWrite to mix Pica and Elite spaces to achieve the best possible results. We decided on this method of formatting documents to allow people to Mix pitches in the same document. Because the Printer Driver/ Printer.device mechanism used on the Amiga has no provision for reporting spacing tables back to the program we have chosen to support only the Mono spaced internal fonts in the NLQ or Draft modes so that we can be assured of consistant formatting. Using Topaz 11 or Pica 11 and printing in NLQ or Draft will access your internal 10 pitch courier font and will print exactly as you see it on the screen WYSIWYG.