Nevermind - found the solution - had to turn on 'Fix Stair-Stepping' in the 
Input filter under printtool.

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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:16:32 -0500
From: Amy Tanner <amy at real-time.com>
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: lpr and text files

When I use lpr to print a text file, the text doesn't print correctly.  Each
line is separate, but with an increasing margin.

it looks kind of like this:

line 1
			line 2
						line 3

rather than

line 1
line 2
line 3

any idea what's causing this?
-- 
Amy Tanner
amy at real-time.com

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Amy Tanner
amy at real-time.com