> <snip> "ps auxx | grep cupsd" i get the following response "awb79 3151 0.0 0.1 1508 996 p1 S+ 10:59AM 0:00.00 grep cupsd" no second line > like the howto's show. any help would be greatly appreciated. Looks like the cupsd daemon isn't running. You need to start the cups daemon to connect to it via http://localhost:631 HTH Dan