just a warning before my question please over look my spelling mistakes, i'm having to use hunt & peck method since i have one arm in a cast. I'm having a printing problem herte also on my linux server. i'm using the lprold printing package, it is printing but after running for a few days, undetermine the exact days, printing just locks up on me, can not print from server side nor windows machines. i go any clear out all temp fils in the spool directory for the printer ane also delete the lock & status files in same directory. then i send kill -9 pid# for lpd. then try an restart lpd with lpd an still no printing, i have to reboot the server to get prtinting to work again. can someone suggest a solution to try. i'm playing with ideal of setting up another print deamonlike cups but i never got cups to work in the past. also im not sure if its just this one printer or not since i'm down to just one printer for now due to mr hp4000 going out. i printing to a ricoh africo 350/450 printer/copy machine, using the unix/linus script that ricoh has on there usa web page. by the way anyone trying to use one of these machines this script does a nice job of setting up printer to print even adds line in printcap file ect. thanks jack