Ok...I rebooted, (so I could see what I was typing) and logged in as "root" and set up my plain 24-pin dot-matrix printer as a standard text-only printer. I selected it and told Linux to print a test page, which it did. Only problem I have now is that I need to enable form-feed and the only thing I can find in man 5 printcap is how to DISABLE form-feed. Can someone tell me what I need to do here? Thanks... John