Ubuntu
cups package

  1. Bug #910272
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 910272

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote : Re: CUPS reports printer not connected

Note that behind a USB->Parallel adapter your computer sees your printer as a USB printer. So checking parallel port support on your computer is not required.

Can you follow all the instructions in the section "USB printer" on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems with the printer connected and turned on? Post the output here. Thanks.

After having done so run the following commands, also with the printer connected and turned on:

sudo modprobe usblp
sudo usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp0
sudo usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp1
sudo rmmod usblp

and post the output here.