Can you please give me the output of dmesg|grep lp0
? If it indicates that the parallel port is used in 'ECP' mode, can you please switch it to EPP in the BIOS and check whether it works then? -- cupsys does not automatically detect parallel printer https://launchpad.net/bugs/29050 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs