Cups

[Richard England]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Richard England wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>     I have learned a lot today and it is all bad. Let us assume the 
>>> udev update I got is what ruined my printing. The obvious thing to 
>>> do is delete the update. But you can not do that.
>>>
>>>     The update becomes part of the whole file for udev. This you 
>>> can't just remove because it is used by the whole computer!
>>>
>>>     So I think I need to get out my DVD and look for the old udev 
>>> rpm and force it to replace the updated one.
>>>
>>>     If that doesn't work do the same thing to the others. A whole 
>>> lot of work. Maybe easier to just reload f7?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I have an HP Deskjet 722C connected to an F7 machine through the 
>> parallel port and I'm using the most recent udev update. I would not 
>> suspect udev yet.
>>
>>  I Have  hpijs-1.7.4a-4.fc7 and hplip-1.7.4a-4.fc7  installed so that 
>> may help in identifying the type of printer (I'm a neophyte with 
>> printers) and the printer shows up in the CUPS web interface with a 
>> URI of   hp:/par/DESKJET_720c?device=/dev/parport0
>>
>     If you have the updated cups files installed you will never get 
> that HP working. Because the new Cups will not accept any printer 
> using the parallel port.
>

Wrong.  It's working, now.

That was the point of my mail.  

You CAN use a parallel port printer. Even one that is not well 
supported.  The "New CUPS" has no problem with the parallel port.

~~R