I'm printing simple ASCII text files to a dot matrix on a serial port (ttyS1) on my RH7.2 (2.4.7-10 with Unix98 and devpts disabled)). Its a Panasonic KX-P3200 9-pin with Epson FX-850 and IBM Proprinter III emulations - Epson seems to work best. I've installed the printer thru printconf-gui, selecting the recommended epsonc driver, and using the default res of 60x60. Doing 'cat file > /dev/ttyS1' prints very well - nice clean default draft font at 10cpi and 66lpi printed quickly in bidirectional mode. However, printing thru lpr produces an awful pixellated-looking font at about 10.5cpi?, vertically compressed to about 90lpi, and printed much slower in unidirectional mode. I have been able to get almost the right font size by adding the '-L 51' option to mpage in the 'define(TEXTfilter... line of mf.cfg - but this took a lot of trial and error cos most values garbled the text. Changing the font on the printer is no use because it is overridden by lpr. I've also tried generating a new LPD-O-MATIC PPD on the linuxprinting.org epsonc driver page and using this by adding new entry to /etc/printcap.local:- :AddrLab:\ :if=/usr/sbin/lpdomatic:\ :filter_options= --lprng $Z /var/spool/lpd/AddrLab/newppdfilename: But his doesn't work any better than the standard RH7.2 system. There must be a better way to configure these things, especially font selection - can anyone enlighten me?