hello, i look after an old application running on a pair of vintage 486 computers. The PCs are networked using the the MS TCP/IP Client, and have drives mapped to a couple of NT Server shared folders. I have also mapped LPT2 to a print server queue on this server, and all of this is working OK (you will be glad to hear). Printing inside Windows is done by installing the printer driver as normal, and connecting it to LPT2. Technically I don't think Windows realises this is a network printer, all of this seems to be taken care of at the TCP/IP client level. OK, so what's the problem then ? Well, I recently got a third PC from another site to do much the same thing. Wfw 3.11 was already installed, I added the network stuff. There were some pre-exisiting printer drivers which I deleted, and installed the required driver (HP LaserJet 5 - Standard). Printing from inside Windows works ... kind of. The page prints, fonts are OK, but this new machine is printing everything double spaced (ie there is what look like an extra linefeed at the end of each line, so we get a line of text, a blank line, another line of text). This happens in all applications (eg Excel and Write). The printer is OK (works for other 2 PCs), the same hp driver is in use, same OS and network client. I have scoured Windows INI files looking for a difference (something confusing the system with regard to pagesize, printer capability or something), but to no avail. Has anyone ever seen this 'extra blank lines' behaviour before, and is there a solution ? (I have a feeling it will be pretty straightforward, but I can't see it just yet :) ) Thanks a lot for any help, much appreciated. David

Try to see if the printer can operate in dump mode so that you can see the caracter codes and compare with print in file with same print