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cups package

  1. Bug #910272
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 910272

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nvsoar (nvsoar) wrote : Re: [Bug 910272] Re: USB->Parallel adapter produces crappy device URI and CUPS "usb" backend cannot cope with it

On 1/20/2012 13:29, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Yes, you are right, the files relevant for you are all i386.deb plus all
> all.deb files. The other files are for other architectures or the source
> package and can therefore get ignored. So download all i386.deb plus all
> all.deb files into one new directory and install them all with the one
> given command line.
>
 20Jan12 Testing
1. SysB - Installed cups ppa version
2. SysA - Reinstalled cups ppa version
3. SysC - Installed cups ppa version; Installed printer; printed
successfully.
4. SysA - Tested printed; printed successfully
5. SysB - Installed printer; printed successfully.

Data files attached.
Re query pair below
w8@w8-Aspire-5000:~$ ls -l /dev/usb/lp*
ls: cannot access /dev/usb/lp*: No such file or directory
w8@w8-Aspire-5000:~$
w8@w8-Aspire-5000:~$ for d in `ls -1 /dev/usb/lp*`; do sudo
usb_printerid $d; done
ls: cannot access /dev/usb/lp*: No such file or directory
w8@w8-Aspire-5000:~$

It doesn't seem to matter whether these two queries are successful or
not. The printer worked in either case. SysA and SysB showed
successful query responses as well as the above outcome. Some of these
are shown in the SysA data.

(FWIW - Windows XP reports the Belkin usb-parallel cable as "USB
Printing Support" with a device instance id of
USB\VID_050D&PID_0002\5&6CCA500&0&2)