There is a generic text only driver in Windows. I've used it successfully to drive old line printers and for output capture set up with a port of File:, no idea if it will do what you need. The driver is listed in the add printer wizard as: Manufacturer: Generic Printer: Generic / Text only Paul > Basic) that send a sequence of bytes to the parallel port. I recall under > Win3.1 that there was a "simple text" printer driver that would probably > send stuff straight through without messing with it. I don't see it in > more recent versions of Windoze. Is there a "generic" printer driver to > just send ASCII out to the printer? -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body