Glad to hear you got things working. To solve the staircase issue, use a2ps to print text files. Will need to pipe output through unix2dos also. > Thanks to all of you. Someday, I'll take a deeper look at the more > classical printer confguration, too. I tried it, but after a staircase > printout of the /etc/passwd I figured it might be easier after all to > try cups a second time. >