Thanks for the reply. I reply to the group and directly as I am not sure
whether you would notice replies to "old" posts (at the rate postings are
made to this group they age very quickly). I did notice that if I want to
print many labels only about maximum 7 or 8 get printed, so I assumed this
bit of code was included to handle that.

I worked around it by writing all the labels to the text file and then
copying the text file to lpt1 once only. This works well enough. The only
hitch is that if the printer messes up a label (my printer does that
sometimes - I think it is a mechanical fault) and I switch it off, realign
the labels and switch on, the printing goes on where it left off - with the
alignment most likely out. I would like to have the printer queue cleared if
the printer stops or is switched off. Fortunately the printer is behaving
well and I print in smaller batches of 20.

Laurence

"raypayette" wrote
in message ...

This is old code, probably a QuickBasic legacy!

It seems that the printer needed some delay to process the matter.
If your printer is recognized by Windows® I strongly suggest that you
let Windows handle it. You might need to update the driver by going to
the manufacturer's web page.

I would rework everything from Excel.


--
raypayette


------------------------------------------------------------------------
raypayette's Profile:
http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=29569
View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=553051