[cups.general] CUPS 1.4.6 - Fedora 15 -Parallel Port Printer

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Thu Nov 10 08:45:16 PST 2011


Hello,

>> HP LaserJet 1300 connected via a Belkin parallel-to-USB converter.
>> Installation has proceeded smoothly on previous Fedoras.
>> On Fedora 15 I can't figure out how to enable a directly-connected printer.
>>
>> Local printer - HP Printer (HP LIP)
>> Add Printer - looking for a URI but what?

Perhaps
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264219#c1
also helps in your case.

Note that "FileDevice Yes" is insecure, see "FileDevice" at
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/ref-cupsd-conf.html


> ... 1.4.6 dropped parallel and serial printer support

No.

All released CUPS versions support parallel and serial printers.

The next upcomming CUPS version 1.6 will
drop serial and parallel backends, see
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3935


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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