We need a lot more info to figure out what's wrong! I've got an Optra R+ which works beautifully with Debian. The problem is much more likely to be with your setup of lpr/lprng, apsfilter/magicfilter, etc. Can you give some more details? Specifically, do you have it attached to a parallel printer port or do you have the network card in it? Which flavor print daemon do you use? Any extra filtering? And what happens if you do something like "ls > /dev/lp1" (as root)?
The Printing-HOWTO file (/usr/doc/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.gz) should give you enough info to get started debugging your setup, and I'll be glad to compare settings on the lexmark control panel. Good luck! --Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon State College [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850 http://140.211.64.20/npreyer.html