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Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 18:52:16 -0700 From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> To: Rafael Skodlar <raffi@linwin.com> Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Parallel port issues [...] > /usr/sbin/printconf-gui That's a RedHat-ism. I've also pretty well given up on classical BSD lpd print handling and have migrated whole hog to CUPS. Its quite sweet, works well, scales reasonably (none of the standard Unix print solution scale well) and even has proper PPD support. > The good thing about it is that it has good test page for testing at > home or at work with different kind of HP printers. Something CUPS also does well. > What do you get with lpc? Is the queue and printing enabled? The problem was not at the lp level -- there was no driver behind the parallel port, so effectively only half the device was there. ===