Leslie,John's DOS command below has an extra space between autoexec.bat and LPT1. You didn't type in two spaces did you? There should be only one space. There's never supposed to be two spaces together in a DOS command.If the printer works, try what Harry suggests, printing a file straight from dos, e.g. C:\> COPY autoexec.bat LPT1 If that works, then it might be the xy setup, but I doubt it. JohnHarry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx