> i would try to run magicfilterconfig. I finally got this to work, to my surprise (makes me about 1 for 6 with that package). Ultimately it took purging it and lpr, reinstalling & configuring lpr, and only then letting it try to install magicfilter. Oh, and for a deskjet 500, it is absolutely necessary to install the djtools (?) package, as binaries from it are used. rick --