Hi I know it's quite unusual question but I will give it a try. I have a 2.5 meter inkjet printer. the printer have 12 print heads, each print head have 74hc244 octal buffer. I have some problem with 2 of the colors and I suspect that the 74hc244 is making a problem while printing, (I have some delays in the print) so I thought maybe to replace all of them to 74hct244 or other better series which are faster (according to Philips data). my question is, can an IC miss a data? or get confused? I know it's odd but I feel that this is the problem but I am afraid to waist time and maybe do some damage. please help if you can. Regards Tal "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Edison -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics