Awhile back I posted this problem; I was able to print the cups printer test pages from YaST2 and KControlCenter but if I tried printing from kwrite or kmail a new process would start that used all available cpu time. the process was (all on one line in kpm) gs -dBATCH -dSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE --r300x300 -sDEVICE-cdj550 -dBitsPerPixel=3 -sOutputFile=|cat >&3 - After a couple of re-installs I think I tracked the problem down. If I'm right then I can't believe nobody else on the list has had this problem. I think there may be a buggy interaction between ghostscript and the anti-alias fonts setting in KDE. If I set Anti-Aliasing to "on" in KDE then I can't print from kwrite or kmail ( I get the cpu hog gs process). If I turn Anti-Aliasing "off" and restart the x server then printing works as expected. Can someone verify this behavior or disprove it on their machine? I use SuSE7.2 pro w/ the must recent kde (2.2.2) & x-free86 (4.2) files from suse thanks dave