printing
Firstly, is there a recommended way of doing printing with Debian? I
see various mentions of LPD, LPRng, CUPS, PDQ and printtool, and there
are a large number of printer-related packages in the archive, many of
which conflict with one another, but I can't find a document to help
me decide what to install.
I tried printtool, but it says it can't find my parallel port. Well,
the printer does react when I do "modprobe parport_pc" or "echo foo >
/dev/lp0", so there is some kind of physical connection.
My printer's a Canon BJC-4300 and it has worked with Debian before,
but it was years ago and I can't remember how I did it. Chances are
everything will have changed by now, anyway.
Yes, I did look at The Printing HOWTO, but it doesn't say very much
about parallel ports and I can't have much confidence in a document
that talks about "kernels >= 2.1.33" when I'm running 2.4.8.
Edmund
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