[cups.general] Printer Connected to parallel port

Paras pradhan pradhanparas at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 08:38:51 PST 2005


hi:

I have connected Cannon Bjc 255SP in my parallel port of my PC running
Debian GNU Linux(etch). When i try to print the test page it did'nt
print and the printers' status truns to: "Parallel port busy...
retrying in 30 secs". after i click the Print test page button.

What should be the problem.

here are some cups packages info installed.

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root at nepalinux:root# dpkg -l |grep cups
ii  cupsomatic-ppd                    20050430-1                
linuxprinting.org printer support - transiti
ii  cupsys                            1.1.23-12                 
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii  cupsys-bsd                        1.1.23-12                 
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman
ii  cupsys-client                     1.1.23-12                 
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro
ii  cupsys-driver-gimpprint           4.2.7-10                  
Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS
ii  cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data      4.2.7-10                  
Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS
ii  gnome-cups-manager                0.31-1                     CUPS
printer admin tool for GNOME
ii  libcupsimage2                     1.1.23-10                 
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - image libs
ii  libcupsys2                        1.1.23-12                 
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
ii  libcupsys2-gnutls10               1.1.23-12                 
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - dummy libs
ii  libgnomecups1.0-1                 0.2.2-1                    GNOME
library for CUPS interaction
ii  libgnomecupsui1.0-1               0.31-1                     UI
extensions to libgnomecups
root at nepalinux:root#
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Help !
Thanks in advance
Paras.





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