Martin:Martin, are you loading a printer file? I believe you need to load one which in turn causes the Xy4 Bitstream Speedo fonts to be loaded. (The extended characters [nnn] are from the Speedo character set.) I generally don't use Xy to print, but load STANDARD.PRN as a placeholder. The 294 alpha displays correctly here with CP 437 set both in vDos and Xy.Setting CHCP 437 in the AUTOEXEC.TXT doesn't make a difference.-- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx