Cups

[Karl Larsen]

Richard England wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
	How did you do it? The web page and the GUI printer setup have no 
parallel port listed. Did you just write something else in? What did you 
write? Mine would not work period.

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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