After a long and productive life, I replaced my Epson 740 with a new Epson Stylus C70 printer. The printer is connected via the parallel port and also used, via Samba, from WinME using Epson M$ default driver. The physical process of printing seems almost totally different under Windows and SuSE (lpr). Certainly Win is faster at... feeding paper <G> though I suspect the integrated speed is higher. Is that (presumably) down to the Drivers? o Can the "wong" driver physically damage the printer? Fwiw, I quite *LIKE* the more pedestrian rate under SuSE, since I prefer to print double sided while retaining fingers and some limited sanity :-) BUT, I might appreciate a BIT more speed occasionally! Thus my (rather vague) questions are these: (a) Aside from the interface, is the C70 *THAT* much better under CUPS? I mostly print 360dpi to paper: monochrome listings and non-critical color. (b) Sometimes Samba printing is sluggish (ages to travel 1.5m? :-) Would it be possible to use some OTHER method to share the printer between my linux and Win systems? With USB? Via a USB Hub??? (c) Browser printing: Mozilla is "OK" (buggy pagination, imo :-) Konqueror does a better job, but I *still* can't get decent margines with "A4dj" (only 3mm or so). Other KDE applications seem to be OK in this respect? Weird. Any comments welcome! TIA, Chris