First To all those who offered suggestions and help, thanks. Now for the strange part, it seems that there was nothing wrong with the printer and or drivers. Yesterday I installed a different driver and spent a good part of the day printing documents with no problems whatsoever. Then I wanted to print out an article for the SuSE SDB (English) and when I did the ..... 284.4 @EJL was printed out was on the top of the sheet again. I then made a mental connection and hastely started digging through my wast basket for the printouts mentioned in my original message bellow. All of the printouts with this code and text shift were from the SuSE SDB pages!!! I reinstalled the old driver and and printed out about 20 pages of stuff from different sources except SuSE. every printout was perfect. Then I printed a SuSE SDB article three times. The first printing went fine but the second displayed the problem again. I have repeated these tests a number of times and the anomaly only occurs when printing SuSE SDB pages. How strange. And always the same characters. Just out of curiosity has anyone else had this problem or can anyone tell me what the strange cryptic code stands for? ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Strange printouts with Epson C80 printer and SuSE 8.2 Date: Wednesday 21 May 2003 05:34 am From: Max Webb To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Hi, I just recently installed SuSE Linux 8.2 and setup up my Epson C80 inkjet printer with yast2 on my network. I am now regularly getting strange printouts that consist of the text of the printout being shifted down the page two and a half inches with as strange "heading?" in the upper left hand corner of the page, that is always the same: 284.4 @EJL As you might imagine this is quite annoying and mysterious as I have no idea what the two rows of numbers and symbols stand for ( 284.4 ) ( @EJL ) This seems to happen like every third of forth print job, and the printouts of the jobs inbetween are fine, But why is this happening?????? Please, if anyone can help me resolve this problem I would be extremely greatful. Here are some details about my setup: First it must be noted that I have set up this Epson C80 printer with SuSE 8.1 using ( on separate ocassions ) both LPring and CUPS and had no problems printing in the past. 1 The printer in question is an Epson stylus C80 and I have it networked with the aid of a router/with printserver, specifically a NetGear Prosafe Firewall/router/printserver ( that is to say the printer is not directly connected to any PC but directly to the router with a parallel cable ) 2. I am using LPD ( filtering and forwarding queue ) SuSE default CUPS, C80 Fomatic+gimprint driver. 3. I have used this setup with SuSE 8.1 before without this problem. Whats going on here? Someone must know the answer to this one. Thanks. -- Remember: Always think positively. You will prevail http://www.tuxgames.com http://www.suse.com http://www.linuxformat.co.uk http://www.linuxjournal.com http://www.transgaming.com ------------------------------------------------------- -- Remember: Always think positively. You will prevail http://www.tuxgames.com http://www.suse.com http://www.linuxformat.co.uk http://www.linuxjournal.com http://www.transgaming.com