Hi all, I have had my tangerine ibook since 2000 and never had any major problems... until now. I am working between my desktop PC (at work) and ibook (home) and had no problems switching the peripherals etc. but i recently bought a HP deskjet 5550 for my PC... then one day (as one would expect) i ran out of ink... i replaced the cartridge... the same time my hard disk went 6ft under. so i had to install the printer to work with my ibook. I kept getting error messages, as my ink level couldnt be detected... i retested the printer with a diff PC (i brought it back to shop, thinking that they had sold me a defected printer), nope... it printed ok. This leave me with my ibook and my brand new HP printer........ waaaarggggggh, here am i thinking of saving the trees, but in actual fact, i cant live without any printers.... HELP! Regards, Hajah Maria Brunei _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus