You'll have a difficult time making it work by just using a jet direct and OS X. LPR printing thru X.1 isn't very good. You could try a workaround for this as I did. I got an old beater intel machine and loaded mandrake linux on it. Then I installed appletalk. I was able to print over my network to the linux machine and it sent the print job to my printer. In your case you can have the linux machine send the print job over your network to you jetdirect. I was printing from my Mac OS 10.1 to an HP laserjet 4 using this setup. The printing method Linux uses is called CUPS. This is why Jaguar is supposed to make it easier to print because Apple has licensed CUPS for use in 10.2.

If you want to know more on how CUPS works and my setup, check out the links:

http://www.mindspring.com/~pkdb/pdb/network/
http://www.mindspring.com/~pkdb/pdb...k/services.html