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>>Do you know how to feed a bit map to the print driver?<< Jim, There's a fairly detailed description in the devices portion of the RKM. Basically the process involves initializing an IODRPReq structure, opening the printer device, then sending PRD_PRTCOMMAND to the printer device. This assumes the printer is graphics capable, and that preferences are set correctly for the printer and the printer driver for the printer supports dumping pixesl to the printer. Included in the IODRPReq structure is a pointer to the rastport and colormap for the image. The RastPort structure carries the bitmap pointer in it. This is the route, as I understand it, for displayed images. If the image is an ILBM, there is a similar process except you use a slightlky different set of structures, I believe. Its been a couple of years since I looked at this in detail, but I think this is the preferred way of doing it. I'm sure (or at least I hope) that someone with more dabling time or actual recent programming experience in this area will jump in and correct me if I'm wrong. wmc – via Autopilot!