OK, by now I'm desperate to accept just about any explanation why this isn't working right. You say its the ocean now? OK, makes sense, I live right by the Atlantic, so while I wasn't looking, aliens from the 4th dimension that came from the 23rd and 1/2 century mind controled whales off shore to come into my house over night to hack my copy of 20030606. Yup, that's it!

Now, seriously, you think its a problem with the print driver CUPS uses for my printer or the *.ps filter CUPS is using?

Well, here's my error log after boot and configuring printer "mrg" before I print anything. I'm out off my office for the summer, so I'm stuck testing on one local printer. If I were at work, I could test local vs. networked, inkjet verses laser, etc.

cat /var/log/cups/error_log
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:05 +0200] Listening to 0:631
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:05 +0200] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:05 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:05 +0200] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:05 +0200] Full reload is required.
E [22/Jul/2003:22:32:05 +0200] LoadAllClasses: Unable to open /etc/cups/classes.conf - No such file or directory
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:07 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 209 PPDs...
E [22/Jul/2003:22:32:07 +0200] LoadPPDs: Unable to write "/etc/cups/ppds.dat" - Read-only file system
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:07 +0200] Full reload complete.
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:58 +0200] Setting mrg device-uri to "parallel:/dev/lp0" (was "file:/dev/null".)
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:58 +0200] Saving printers.conf...
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:58 +0200] New printer 'mrg' added by ''.
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:58 +0200] Saving printers.conf...
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:58 +0200] Printer 'mrg' modified by ''.
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:58 +0200] Saving printers.conf...
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:58 +0200] Printer 'mrg' now accepting jobs ('').
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:58 +0200] Saving printers.conf...
I [22/Jul/2003:22:32:58 +0200] Printer 'mrg' started by ''.

Also, the test.txt and test.cc files print as plain text in M$ WINDOZE using M$ NOTEPAD. Further test.gs (with GV for WINDOZE) and test.pdf (Acrobat Reader for WINDOZE) print-out just the same as in KNOPPIX (still missing the black text).

I'm working on the rest of your post.

Regards,