Hi, If you don't hate CUPS, just make a CUPS print queue to use your USB printer (you can choose Raw data PPD if you don't need any data translation), and use -d <printer_queue_name> option of lp / lpr (If you have only one printer queue, no -d option is needed). It's easiest way. Thanks, -- Naruhiko (Nate) Ogasawara (naruoga at gmail.com)