Thanks to all who replied to my situation of not being able to print to an HP LaserJet 5Si JetDirect card.... I tried reconfiguring the printer: Network Jet Direct and printing a test page. A single page actually printed, but with just a single line across the top of the page. cups is running, cups-lpd is running, I tried the hpijs driver, I also tried the recommended driver hpi5gray (I'm at home now, I'm not sure of the exact name) The firewall is stopped. I can ping the printer successfully. I'm running out of things to try... :-( And as I was expecting this "project" to only take a couple of hours, I don't know how much more time I can spend on it until I'll have to concede and run a Windows application instead.... :-( Don