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Message: [QUOTE="wb0gaz, post: 4798236"] I need to print an incoming e-mail received by Outlook 2000 to a plain text file or "dumb" printer (no graphics at all.) The output is not as expected (details below.) The messages causing problems are in rich text format (this works OK when the messages are in pure text, but that's not always the case); it appears outlook 2000 is trying to format RTF messages before printing, but is not succeeding. When I configured a Generic/Text only printer, then printed the message to a file (an option given at the time printing is requested, which I did to investigate and try to isolate the problem), the resulting file contains numerous extraneous spaces and newlines, as if the driver is attempting to simultate a font-size mismatch or something (and of course the file is basically unusable given that situation.) The excess data is systematic (not random), so with significant difficulty it could probably be filtered out, but it would not be an ideal solution. Much experimentation with fonts, font sizes, and other options in the printer driver itself changed nothing. Much experimentation with page setup and related stuff in outlook 2000 changed nothing. I saw a couple of messages in m.p.o.p dated in year 2000 discussing this, and at the time this was considered a bug in outlook 2000. Has someone since found a solution to the problem? Tnx, Dave [email]wb0gaz@hotmail.com[/email] [/QUOTE]