[cups.general] Printer Connected to parallel port

Matt Hull mhull1 at uic.edu
Tue Dec 27 10:00:54 PST 2005


any info on the parallel port?  does dmesg tell you anything?  what do you
have enabled in the kernel?

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Paras pradhan wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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#
> ---
>
> Help !
> Thanks in advance
> Paras.
>
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