Hi,I think I solved the problem ... it is not a problem with cups but with a wrongly loaded parport module. lsmod shows lp, parport_pc and parport, but they dont seem to work. After manually unloading and reloading them printing works fine.
So no problem with cups. Thanks anyways for your help Christian -- To reply to this posting directly use the following address and remove the 'NO-SPAM' part: Riedel.Christian.NO-SPAM@gmx.net