Thanks for the replies. it appears the reason acroread didn't see the ipp printer is because... *ahem* ... I had deleted it :)
Now that it's back again, acroread can see it fine. Thanks for the links James - it looks like IPP is the way to go. Alan - I usually use evince, but I have been having some printing issues with it lately, as well as performance issues (it crashes a lot!) But I think I've solved those now, so I'll go back to it an emerge -C acroread! thanks! -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. -- Plato -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list