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Right, on to my next headache (it's the same problematic box belonging to my parents). I cannot seem to get the above combination to play nice - lots of raw postscript being dumped to the paper instead of the expected results. I will freely admit that printing on Linux is not something I'm very good at as I literally never print anything personally, and normally for clients I just plug the printer in, let CUPS do it's work and everything is rosy. The only potential oddity is that the ancient 2100 is a parallel port device and the PC in question is too modern to have either a suitable port or the ISA slot required to drop my old serial/parallel breakout connection card into so I bought a generic parallel to USB adaptor, which seemed to work fine. Linux/CUPS immediately detected the printer correctly, and once again, the dual boot Win8 install flawlessly acquired drivers from windows update and prints without issues. So I've been fiddling around in the CUPS interface, and have tried all of the available driver options - there are about 10 - and the correct PPD which I obtained directly, with no luck. Helpfully, printing the maintenance test page from the CUPS admin section results in the 2100 printing the same "If you can read this you do not have the correct driver installed" no matter which driver I use. I do remember at least about Linux+printers from the distant past to make sure I've avoided all the really dumb mistakes, like changing US Letter to A4 but have at least temporarily hit a brick wall. Anyone got any ideas? Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq