Yes I see, anyway I am grateful for your help.
I am sure it will get easier if I stick with it.

Heeeeey!!!!

I am so grateful, that worked a treat.

Do you think it needs to be made a bit more obvious or is it because I am a windoze thicky !!

Right that makes sense but in the list of drivers there's nothing that matches my printer which is HP Deskjet 2050 J510 Series There is an entry for Deskjet 510 Cups + Gutenprint v5.2.5 I tried that but it didnt work. There's hundreds of HP drivers in the list but nothing that says 2050 or J510 apar...

When I clicked add printer my printer was selected automatically so I thought it had been properly detected but are you saying I still have to install something else, sorry but I'm not finding the required steps to be at all obvious.
Thanks for your assistance

Sorry I should have previewed my post, I should have said I don't understand the reason........
By the way thanks for you reply
Any more idea's greatly appreciated

I tried them all & found two two of them print to file ( I understand the reason for this, surely I can save a document in the normal way, why would I want to print to file)
Anyway I selected my HP printer but it just sat there grinning at me!! Oh and before you ask yes it was turned on.

Hi, Being a Linux newbie I struggled to work out even how to install a printer but eventually found the cups printer wizard, from there I went to administration & add new printer, it found my printer immediately HP-2050, great, I added it & set default values then clicked "Print test pa...

I will give that a go & report back. Thank You.

I am using Puppy 5.2.8 on a memory stick & I am trying to view on a external monitor connected with hdmi. In Windows I can toggle the screen from laptop to ext monitor by pressing the blue Fn+F2 key, but this does not work in Puppy. I found that if I boot into Puppy with the ext monitor already ...