Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> I remove and reinstall the printer (which btw. is online, lights are >> up :-) ) and when sending a testpage to the printer i get the > I had a problem like that. I had to delete the printer from the > printer setup program and then re-load it with the same name and so He does mention that he did this. But he doesn't mention how the printer is connected to his machine. "Connection refused" usually means that something was alive at the IP address being touched but nothing was listening at the port being used. If the printer was a network printer, for example, he might have chosen the wrong protocol and be trying to touch, say, port 9100 when the printer is not listening there. Have a look in the cups error log at /var/log/cups/error_log and see if there is more info, and confirm that cups is still running ps -Af | grep cupsd -Andy