Thanks for the explanation and suggestions. I did try printing a file directly with xpp but had the same results: nothing. I have downloaded quite a bit of information on CUPS, cups-o-matic, and Linux printing and will try to work my way through it and figure out what's happening. --Judy Miner ----- Original Message ----- From: "a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Judith Miner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: August 12, 2001 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please On Sunday 12 August 2001 17:42, Judith Miner wrote: > Sridhar wrote with regard to my printing problem: > >> Try printing to a postscript file (available in the print settings of > > most apps) and then printing that with xpp. << > [snip] DON'T remove xpp make XPP the target of your print command instead of lpr -P pronter in the command line for printing when you call a print put xpp there. Then you can always print In StarOffice, you need to run SPA as root and make the connection of the derfault printer to xpp. Then things should starrt working. Also run xpp as a user, not as root because it builds a user file which overrides the root configuration settings. Civileme
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