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Yes, I would add words of caution to using CUPS as well. I fought with that piece of crap for 4 hours last weekend and it had so much trouble printing from Mutt or any other textbased application that I almost pulled my hair out. It printed OK in X, but still destroyed margins and other such things. I have an HP600C which prints perfectly using lprng and so that is what I went back to. I have found the console apps and X apps print much better with this option. CUPS is a good idea, but until it's matured a bit. I would stay away from it. * John Murphy (jfmurphy@charter.net) [010217 12:40]: => =>I wouldn't walk to fast to start using Cups. Unless you have a printer that =>fits into their category of full working printers. I have been using a Canon =>with the bj600 driver for years with different Linux distributions with no =>problems. With Mandrake and their cups printer interface I could print text =>alright but graphics would give me forty pages of text mumble jumble. After =>working with all kinds of adjustment it did print out graphics finally but =>produced the most washed out print out that I ever saw. The Cups interface =>is a good idea as it adds the usual options you find in Win for paper and =>printout. The problem is that it has to grow some with the interface and =>printers they support. => -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- SuSE Linux 7.1 : Mutt 1.3.12i : KDE 2.1 Beta2 : Peace of Mind ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.