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On Mon 03 Oct 2011 at 23:05:08 +0100, ael wrote: > I have a parallel laser printer which has worked very well for several > years under cups. > > But now, printing is impossible because the printer is paused > with the message > Backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel does not exist! > > However, it does exist: > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel > -r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 30116 Sep 27 14:14 /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel [Snip] > I can write data to the printer with cat "testing \n" > /dev/lp0, so > that part of the system is fine. > > I can run "parallel" as root as follows: > > # /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel > direct parallel:/dev/lp0 "unknown" "LPT #1" "" "" Ouch! Hello ael, I see you sorted the last bit. How about the rest of the issue? The parallel backend has become part of the cups-filters package, so it would be nice to know whether the trouble you had has gone on Wheezy at least. Regards, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-printing-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/28082013123956.ba028ff94...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk