I'm getting close to throwing in the towel on this. I mean, you ever here of a "brewing a tempest in a teapot?" Well, if all that's broke is color text printing from KATE to a color printer, but I can print from GVIM (and everything else) ok, then that will have to do I guess...

OK, so I've got a little survey for you to organize this a little:

(1) Can anyone print color text from KATE to your printer?

(2) Do you have any other printer issues?

(3) Do you use CUPS to configure your printer?

(4) Are you printing directly from an app or with lp?

BTW, I can't find that debugging tool, Edwin, you keep mentioning that gives 1000s of lines of error_log!

Are we approaching the point of diminishing returns here, or can we really track down this bug? What do you think?