Jack Malone wrote:

was using yast2 an it had a driver just when it all setup an i an i let it save the info it just starts spiting out pages with just one line of print at the top.

Hi Jack, Below you can see my /etc/printcap file as it was created by YaST. I have a HP Deskjet 610C, which is, for some silly reason which I don't wanna query, installed as a cdj550. You can do this as well with YaST, you then select 'HP Deskjet' and 'cdj550'. Last time I tried color, it did color too. Worked for me like this, though I am afraid this is a stupid ancient method, no cups, no samba, just a printer on lpr0, may the gurus forgive me :-) And, your other point, my printer just spits pages too, if you choose the wrong settings in YaST. If it prints hundreds of pages of weired text, you sent a picture to ascii; this may happen since the printer works in four modes: ascii, color, mono and raw. A pic, of course, can only be printed in color or mono (if it's black & white). Hope that helps .... Cheers Wolfi ================================== mailto:wolfi_z@web.de ### BEGIN apsfilter: ### cdj550 a4 color 300 ### # Warning: Configured for apsfilter, do not edit the labels! # apsfilter setup Sat Sep 1 15:56:59 CEST 2001 # ascii|lp1|cdj550-a4-ascii-mono-300|cdj550 a4 ascii mono 300:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-ascii-mono-300:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-ascii-mono-300/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-ascii-mono-300/acct:\ :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/cdj550-a4-ascii-mono-300:\ :la@:mx#0:\ :tr=:cl:sh:sf: # lp|lp2|cdj550-a4-auto-color-300|cdj550 a4 auto color 300:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-auto-color-300:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-auto-color-300/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-auto-color-300/acct:\ :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/cdj550-a4-auto-color-300:\ :la@:mx#0:\ :tr=:cl:sh:sf: # lp-mono|lp3|cdj550-a4-auto-mono-300|cdj550 a4 auto mono 300:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-auto-mono-300:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-auto-mono-300/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-auto-mono-300/acct:\ :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/cdj550-a4-auto-mono-300:\ :la@:mx#0:\ :tr=:cl:sh:sf: # raw|lp4|cdj550-a4-raw|cdj550 a4 raw:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-raw:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-raw/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-raw/acct:\ :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/cdj550-a4-raw:\ :la@:mx#0:\ :tr=:cl:sh:sf: # ### END apsfilter: ### cdj550 a4 color 300 ###