for print spooling to work with HP jetdirect you have to set up a sort of bounce queue with /etc/printcap for your JetDirect Printers eg: shared_prn:lp=lp@localhost lp:server:lp=lpt1@192.168.64.99:sd=/var/spool/lpd/shared_prn of course you should use your own printers name and ip address. The word localhost should stay as it is. This works for me on 3 JD printers in the one printcap ( all separate entries and ip's) If anyone has this working and then gets the accounting file to work give me a mail as I can only get the jobstart and jobend entries in my accounting file, I don't get the pagecount entries eg start -p... end -p ... Hope this helps Regards Bruce Kerr