Hi, I work at home. One computer (Linux Mint Qiana), one printer (Lexmark E230), connected by USB cable. Ever since installing Mint, I've had to cold-cycle my printer between every print job. Otherwise, subsequent print outs are not the intended document, but rather a string of random characters and form-feeds, starting with "PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PCLXL) HP-PCL XL;1;1" Have asked in the past for fixes here at LUV, on Mint & Ubuntu forums and on CUPS & Linux printer forums. Nothing effective as a response. So... I think that just shooting Esc E (27 69 in decimal, or 1b 45 in hex) at the printer between each job =might= kludge a fix. (Unfortunately, I can't make CUPS use a 2-byte binary file as the entirety of a header or footer banner. So that approach won't work.) Creating the 2-byte file would be easy enough: Some hex editor. And I vaguely recall how I'd do it in MSDOS: Create a batch file that contains the line... copy resetprn.txt lpt1: But I'm not sure how to ... 1. - identify my printer (as a target) within the Linux filesystem 2. - make a similar shell script into an executable icon on my desktop Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Carl Bayswater, Vic