I just upgraded to Fedora core 2 from core 1, and now lp and lpr cannot read from standard input. [allan@mybox bin]$ /usr/bin/lp < /etc/hosts lp: stdin is empty, so no job has been sent. [allan@mybox bin]$ /usr/bin/lp /etc/hosts request id is laserjet-977 (1 file(s)) It does work if the output of a device is to standard input. I used the lpr -P (printerid) --stdin with Mozilla's print to send printer output to a specific printer and has since I 'discovered' this fix when using RH9. How about trying the following and see if it works cat <file> | lp James Mckenzie James McKenzie A Proud User of Linux!