and I am back. Lots of things have happened since I signed off the list last spring. I've become a grandpa, twice! http://www.jlkreps.net/jerrypaul.html shows my new grandson. He is a seven year old genius! http://www.jlkreps.net/MichelleJeff/TYLER.html My daughter's first born! Looks just like his dad! Also, my LexMark z52 celibrated consuming its first color ink cartridge by burning out its circuit board with an 'over current' condition. So, rather than repair the z52 I decided to get a new printer. This time a laser. While at SAM's I saw a Samsung ML-4500 on sale for $149, and it sported a Penquin on the box, with the words "Linux Compatible". It should have said "RH compatible, not Linux compatible" The install CD contained ghostscript software that was tailored to RH and required "printtool" and linuxconf to install. I installed it anyway, but It wouldn't work on my SuSE. Then. I tried YaST, which set up the lpd daemon and BSD spooler, but jobs set to the spooler wouldn't print because they were not being converted to a postscript form the ML-4500 would recognize, I guess. I tried various HP laserjet4 compatible drivers. No joy. So, I remembered hearing about CUPS installed it from the CDs. Then I went out to the SuSE ftp site and dl'd the latest gx_11, gs_libs and fonts, etc... and installed them. Later I did the same with the CUPS rpms. After that, YaST2 identifies the printer correctly by manufacture and model. However, when the test button is pressed the print job doesn't make it to the print que. It quits cups - o - matic with a status 32 error. Doing a gs -h shows that the latest gs_lib rpm from the SuSE ftp site does NOT contain the Samsung ML-4500, which explains why the job doesn't make it to the spooler or the printer. I did a test install of Mandrake's 8.0 gs_lib, which was supposed to contain the Samsung ML-4500 driver, but KPackage showed that it had too many dependencies on Mandrake utilitiy software to go through the pain of attempting to install it. Before I look at recompiling the gs_lib script, assuming I can lean how to add ML-4500 functionality, has anyone have any success in getting a SuSE 7.2 talk to a Samsung ML-4500? Or, does SuSE work well with one of the HP printers listed by gs -h on its version of gs_lib, in case I take the printer back to SAMS? Jerry Kreps