Hi All Follow up to my original posting: At home I have RH7.3. Nothing special but a typical install. In that when I opened a document in kword and file--print was given in that "cups" was there in the programs used for printing along with other 4 I mentioned in OP. So, my orignal question : How to get the option of printing using "cups" in other programs like kword or openoffice? N S Srikanth