Cups
Richard England
rlengland at verizon.net
Wed Aug 8 01:33:55 UTC 2007
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
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