In answer to some questions. My ISP connection is dialup.When I try to install the lp module in the debian install process, I get the message "installation failed". I think that I succeeded at one time afterward using apt-get. It still didn't work.I tried dmesg and no printer was shown. Testing with echo "hello" > /dev/lp0 does not use /etc/printcap. However, I have used magicfilter and apsfilter with no success.