Elizabeth Barham said: > > This condition seems to only happen when using Samba from the Win98 > machine; another gnu/linux workstation uses the printer via lpd and has > not had the same problem. this makes me think the printer has a jetdirect(or similar) card in it? HP has drivers for win32 which allow the system to spool directly to the printer bypassing any print server, works pretty good. have you tried this? nate