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Hello Chris, happy new year !. - have not needed to add anything in terms of disabling CR etc through Driver 80,2,1, worked for me straight out of the box so to speak for both CPM using pip and WS.   From WS I print and suppress FF but allow formatting and prevent pause between pages... i.e N N N

for your info Chris, and I am sure you already knew but the driver & print server also work through CP/M on the LST: device. Was able to print from CP/M directly and configured Wordstar (simple teletype) to print as well. 

hi get same issue on my next KS2 with same 2.09,  3.02.01 and 1.44db. Have tried reinstalling which downloads & unpacks ok 

Hello Chris,

downloaded and ran with no issues on my Windows 10 setup, no issues other than the usual acceptance of running something from the internet and permissions etc.

Printed off a number of listings from the next, including a couple spanning many pages, using a couple of various fonts all of which worked with no issues.  

I also tried the same tests on another printer connected via USB and got the same good results, also repeating this with the MS virtual printer driver to create a PDF (which may be useful to some).

Printers tested.

1. HP LaserJet P1006 
2. Canon MX495 Ink Jet Printer.
3. MS Print to PDF

The GUI itself works well, selecting printers and the printer dialogue boxes as well as the Fonts and their styles, sizes and script types with no issues, if I was to suggest an improvement on this it would be the ability to resize the dialogue boxes as some of the long font names get truncated but a very very minor point.  

I like that you can see the print come through, the output is reliable with no dropping or missing characters.

That worked, straight from the box so to speak.
Lprint and Llist both worked fine from basic.

it would appear to be RAW as the default data type 

Would be happy to help test  out, will let you know the driver version etc 

ah yup,  I see that now your right I had close #3 after the Lprint, things have improved with the Print Job completing 
However still no print unfortunately, though occasionally the printer does go through a start up as if its getting ready to print.. which is such a tease ! 

Print Server Started for 'HP LaserJet Direct'
waiting for connection
connection from 192.168.1.136
print job started
print job completed
waiting for connection

Hello,
I am trying to get the Next to print using the driver as described in the example, with the sample basic programs.

The printer is a HP LaserJet P1006 connected via USB through a Windows 10 PC running the WinPrintServer program (thank you)

F:\>WinPrintServer.exe
Print Server Started for 'HP LaserJet Direct'
waiting for connection
connection from 192.168.1.136
print job started

When I run the next program I can see the WinPrintServer connect as above, and I see the spool files in the 

C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS

Using Spectrum NEXT with v2.09 (though it was the same with 2.08) and the latest version of the driver.

Wow what a great job you have done, Graphics are awesome on the Next and the background tune is complimentary to the game whilst still retaining the original effects.  Im still no good at it, so now I am no good 40 years on... 

 Loving the game... a little too hard for me.. looking forward to 1,1