Having trouble getting cups working

[Andrew Falanga]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Reid Linnemann <lreid at cs.okstate.edu> wrote:
> Written by Andrew Falanga on 04/22/08 09:40>>
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>  Your device URI should not be an lpd URI, especially since you can't
>  print with lpd. Use a 'parallel' URI in your case; parallel:/dev/lpt0
>  works for me. When you want to refer to the printer from an external
>  system, use ipp://hostname/printers/printername
>

How interesting.  I suspected something like this but the web
interface didn't show a parallel URI.  Thank you all.  I'll give this
a try tonight when I get home.

Andy


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