Re: Cups

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On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 18:33 -0700, Richard England wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
I have Karl's questiom. I can not find a parallel port option in the
latest cups. Where did you find it? Or did you have yout printer
configured before the cups update?
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