On Monday 18 March 2002 16:54, Jima wrote: <snipped see the archives if you missed it. ;-> I ran into this with cups when I rebuilt my system a few months ago. Have your friend find the cupsd.conf file, it should be /etc/cups (at least it is on SuSE 7.2) In that file find the variable AutoPurgeJobs. By default this is set to No. I found that StarOffice documents would automagically reprint themselves after startup until I purged the files from /var/spool/cups/<printer> and set this variable to Yes. Not guaranteed to work but is a first step. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com