Hello Guys! Thank you all for a wonderfull feedback. After some experimenting I came up with these two small functions added to ~/.bash_profile which I find very easy to use. function printman { man "$1" | col -b | ul -t dumb | enscript -E -f "Times-Roman@11/13" } function printext { cat "$1" | col -b | ul -t dumb | enscript -E -f "Times-Roman@11/13" } By the way in haste I forgot to mention the type of printer I am having. It's a dot matrix printer. Thank You all again. -- vikram... |||||||| |||||||| ^^'''''^^||root||^^^'''''''^^ // \\ )) //(( \\// \\ // /\\ || \\ || / )) (( \\ -- Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want. -- Tobias Smollet -- _ ~|~ = Registered Linux User #285795