EBS Cheque Format - ETEXT direct to Printer in ASCII

Hi
With expert assistance from Kevin Woodrow I now have cheque formatting generating ETEXT ASCII output correctly - this to be sent directly to a character printer.
Sending the output ASCII file to the printer with a UNIX lp command gets the ASCII characters correctly formatted onto the printer sized and spaced to fit the pre-printed stationary.
When the same printer is defined as the destination in the Payment Process Profile (many different options tried in printer definition) then the EBS printing sub-system translates the ASCII text into a bit-mapped representation - and sends it to the printer - which prints readable output, but the size and spacing is now changed so that it does not at all fit the pre-printed stationary.
Anyone know how to define a printer as an ASCII TEXT device so that the the ASCII characters generated by XMLP ETEXT are sent directly to the printer with no modification at all?
Thanks in advance.
Mike

Duplicate thread. Source post here:
EBS Cheque Format - ETEXT direct to Printer in ASCII
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