I'm trying to print on my star dot-matrix printer in compressed mode
and I'm not having consistent luck.  Sometimes it will print the correct
number of characters per line and other times it will wrap around about a
quarter of the way.  It seems to help if I turn the printer off and back
on again but I don't want to rely on this trick.  I'm using the following
code from a Visual Basic for dos program:

width "lpt1:", 255
printer.print chr$(15)

  I'm also starting off in normal mode and printing some letter head info
and then attempt to go into the compressed mode.  It always switches to
the compressed font size but wraps around too early.  Any suggestions?

Thanks

Austin Harris