Dear listers, Below is a summary of the responses I got to my queries on workspace improvements and printing from MI on an NT4 workstation: NT PRINTING We have been on NT for several years and don't have the problems to which you referred. First, the NT knowledge base has a lot of information on printing with NT that some one should review. NT can work very differently from 95. For example, NT does not necessarily require a driver on a local machine to print. It can use the one on machine to which the job is spooling. There is no requirement in NT that the printers be "named" differently. Your network administrator can solve that issue. If you are printing to Jet Direct cards in a printer consult the NT Knowledge base about setting them up under MS TCP/IP Print Services. They will run much faster. If you are on an NT network with Netware services still running, the system will be slower. Best case is a pure TCP/IP including the print server. Is the 95 workstation attached directly to the printer as an LPT1 port, or are they both spooling to another device? Is the NT workstation set up to wait until fully spooled before printing (Don't)? Check your priority settings in the properties window for the printer. Go to High and see if it makes a difference. Try converting from Raw data send to EMF or vice versa. Are you relying on the 95 driver on the print server or do you have the NT driver? There are lots of issues, but the net-net is that properly configured there should be no difference in printing with 95 or NT. (It all sounds like a network issue to me) NT is a real OS where as 95 is not. Sounds to me like you need to push the network administrator to tune NT up a bit. Steve Thompson I found this response from Steve to be very helpful in setting up printers to use TCP/IP instead of DLC - I haven't as yet done any prints to confirm speed improvements etc. FYI the Knowledge Base document is Q195643 NT PRINTERS Saw your mail. We are having same kind of problems but are able to plot large files from within the NT and using a hp2500cp. Why is this? I mean why are NT so "bad" at this and 95 not? and do you know if it's different with other drivers/2000? Is there a work around? Sincerely Yours Cand.Scient. Lars Bagge Nielsen Sorry Lars, I don't have any answers for you - maybe Steve's comments will help. WORKSPACES I totally agree. MapInfo should make the way it handles workspaces much more flexible. Things like not finding a printer should rather lead to pop up a dialog to respecify a printer or even ignore printer settings at all if the printer cannot be found. Thomas Gülden WORKSPACES You are singing to the choir! Workspaces are the biggest pain in the rear end since bubble gum on shoe leather. I hope enough people raise enough of a ruckus that MI will listen! Thank you, Sarah Myers Preventive Care Operations Blue Cross of California WORKSPACES Yes this is quite fustrating. I normally check the contents of a workspace before opening it and after saving saving one and I am surprised when one is actually saved as I expect it to be. On the other hand, they are quite useful as a means of creating quick mapbasic programs to automate certain tasks. Ken Fioretti Geographic Business Systems WORKSPACES Peter, This may not be the answer your looking for, but have you seen "workspace control" by 4thBeach Software (Sth Australian company) You can download a trial copy at http://www.4thbeachsoftware.com/Products/products.htm At the least it may make life a little easier when you have to edit workspaces Let me know how you go? Regards Peter Doyle Telstra Mobile Networks Qld Geographical Information & Mapping (07) 34064304 I have yet to check this one out - sounds promising NT PRINTING Peter: I have found printing in general from Mapinfo on an NT workstation to be a problem. My solution was to get Superprint which eliminated 90% of the problems. Don't know if this will help with your 650c. Apparently the printer drivers for NT are different than Win 9x. SS I have heard a lot of good news about Superprint but haven't had the chance to try it out. One thing I didn't get a response to was the way in which NT printer drivers alters the size of text in my maps which were compiled on a Win95 machine - the same occurs in my WP documents as well? Regards Peter Graham WS Group - Mackay Ph: +61 7 4951 2911 Fx:: +61 7 4953 1319 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]