Hmm. On that page, they show 'lpinfo -v' reporting a USB printer as being named /dev/usblp0 -- on my machine it's reporting the printer as /dev/lp0 ... I wonder whether that's a meaningful symptom, or just a version/ditro difference.
Okay, I went around in circles for a while using the HTTP interface for CUPS, but finally noticed that a) it kept wanting to assign the printer to /dev/lp0 no matter what I did, and described it as 'parallel', even though it was autodetecting the damned thing on the USB port, and b) there was an evil-twin printer that I could not remove.
So I ssh'd to a different machine to look up major/minor device numbers and 'mknod'ed /dev/usblp0 by hand, switched to a root desktop to delete all printers from Gnome, and went through the "add new printer" screens in a web browser again.
This time, asking it to print a test page generated brief, tiny noises and made the power light on the printer flash for a very long time.
Oh wait, a piece of paper finally came out! :-)
Mostly blank, with what looks like a grey pixellated ghost image of something indistinct on the top half-inch. :-(
At least the CUPS daemon is talking to the right port though, so it's progress...
Well, that was clearly more difficult than it should have been. But now it sounds like you have the port stuff working, you may just need to pick a different printer driver (my Fedora has driver "collections" from Gimp, and HP, and a few other projects, so you can pick the one that works best).
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Hmm. On that page, they show 'lpinfo -v' reporting a USB printer as being named /dev/usblp0 -- on my machine it's reporting the printer as /dev/lp0 ... I wonder whether that's a meaningful symptom, or just a version/ditro difference.
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So I ssh'd to a different machine to look up major/minor device numbers and 'mknod'ed /dev/usblp0 by hand, switched to a root desktop to delete all printers from Gnome, and went through the "add new printer" screens in a web browser again.
This time, asking it to print a test page generated brief, tiny noises and made the power light on the printer flash for a very long time.
Oh wait, a piece of paper finally came out! :-)
Mostly blank, with what looks like a grey pixellated ghost image of something indistinct on the top half-inch. :-(
At least the CUPS daemon is talking to the right port though, so it's progress...
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