Hey, thanks for the reply. I found the problem. When running under the SCM as a service, the SCM obviously takes the "entry point" nominated in the dispatch table that is passed into StartServiceCtrlDispatcher( ) and puts it into another thread. Since I was calling CoInitialize BEFORE this, COM never got initialized, or so it seemed. Simply putting CoInitialize into the entry point function sorted me out. As an aside, I am slightly curious why, before the fix, calls the ADO Connection::Open( ) function SUCCEEDED and the CreateInstance( ) function returned what seems to be a valid interface pointer to the Connection object - weird. Anyhow, atleast its sorted out :D Thanks, Peter controlSHIFT [Glossary Manager] [AfterThought Backup Lite] All good things were meant to be improved

Peter You say you've tried modifying DEVMODE, presumably this is to set a custom form size, by setting dmPaperSize to zero, and setting dmPaperLength and dmPaperWidth ? If so, are you setting DM_PAPERSIZE|DM_PAPERWIDTH|DM_PAPERLENGTH in dmFields ? Your other alternative is to get the logo onto the slip; I'm assuming the logo is monochrome (not sure if it's safe to use the B and W words these days), and you have a bitmap of it. AFAICR, you can do limited graphics printing with an LX series by sending escape sequences. You might be able to do a generalised PrintBitMap method for yourself instead. It sounds painful, but might be easier than trying to figure out what's wrong with the GDI version. Steve S

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What I can suggest is this. The GM_ADVANCED flag is not supported in anything below Windows 2000, so first, get your OnDraw() function to check if you're drawing to an old style metaDC. You can do this like this : bool bMetaDC = false; if ( GetObjectType(hdc) == OBJ_METADC ) bMetaDC = true; Now that you know that you're rendering to an old metaDC, create another DC, do all your drawing to that and then BitBlt() to your metaDC. I don't know if it will work, but its worth a try... ------------------------------------------- 99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs, Fix 1 bug, recompile.... 101 little bugs in the code...