Karen, It appears the printers are not configured correctly on the SUSE box. I haven't used SUSE so don't know what was used to setup printer (YAST?). In general modern Linux distros' GUI printer setup usually works well. Perhaps try remove & reinstall the printers on the SUSE box? Some comments mixed in below. HTH Bob Karen A Swanberg wrote: > > I now have a linux user (running SUSE) who wants to print to the printers. > I see doing this with one of two methods: printing directly to the printer > (opening the HP jetdirect to his IP, which is fine) or having him send the > print job to the print server. > > If the user send the job to the print server, the job prints out as the > postscript commands, rather than the formatted postscript output. If he > sends it directly to the printer, he gets postscript jibberish or nothing > at all. > > to do that then printing to the server. I've heard rumblings about port > 9100 printing, but that means nothing to me. port 9100 > HP JetDirect port port 515 > standard lpr port > I do have a samba server I could use to catch the lpr print jobs, and send > them onto the win server, but boy do I *not* want to do that. shouldn't be necessary Some addtl. info: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/jsmeix_print-netzwerk.html http://www.linuxprinting.org/howto/ http://www.linuxprinting.org/howto/vendors.html#SUSE-WHAT-COMES-WITH http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1179.txt?number=1179 -kinda heavy reading