If you have or are familiar with the HP 600C printer you will know that the printer at any one time has either or a black cartridge or a color cartridge but not both at the same time. So my first question is: 1. Should I have a separate color printer definition and a separate mono printer definition in my APSFILTER file(s)? It seems that the HP 550/560 file is closest to the 600. The second question: 2. I have tried printing with cat filename > /dev/lp1 and the result is the "staircase" effect? Is there a way to get around this when using this method or must lpr be used? These leads to the third question: 3. When I print a generic text file using lpr the result is a landscape printout using a very small font as opposed to the expected portrait printout using the default font of the printer. Should this be? Or do I have something set improperly, or not set? By the way, these really are fine-tuning questions...For the most part in other software my printer works fine. I can print color pages using xv (and gimp). Using Ghostview I can print PDF and PS files. I am just looking for answers on the things that should work properly but don't (like a simple text file). Thanks, Arlen Carlson -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e