I did check if locahost is working and it is. The strange thing is that I did a fresh install on a new system and kdeapplications list lp as the defaul printer option. however on my system it does
not which is wierd. I would really appreciate some insight as to why applications like emacs mozilla abiword are able to use the printer setupwhereas KDE office suite applications are not able to use it.
thank you regards Harshu