THOMAS ADAM wrote:

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Output shows that ldp is running.

Ok, try a simple test......

create a short file of text, save it, and then try the following:

cat ./name_of_file_with_text | lpr

See if that works,

Thomas Adam

Thomas & all, I still get endless printed pages of odd character set output, so I abandoned printing again after trying this (IE, I turned the printer off again). However, there were no error messages reported when I piped the cat output to the printer. Somehow I have to clear the que first, but I can't seem to accomplish this. Lawrence Sayre --------------------------------------------- "Man's mind is his basic tool of survival!" (a quote from the famous 'John Galt' speech in the equally famous book "Atlas Shrugged") ---------------------------------------------