Your USB-to-parallel adapter does not pass through the printer ID. The device is recognized as printer, but there is no information about manufacturer and model. Therefore system-config-printer and hal-cups- utils automatically assign the text-only printer to the unknown device.
In general you have to run system-config-printer and manually choose manufacturer and model. That you cannot print at all is a bug of the "hal" CUPS backend. See https://fedorahosted.org/hal-cups-utils/ticket/5 Try to do the following: cupsctl FileDevice=yes lpadmin -p <your print queue name> -E -v file:/dev/usb/lp0 This is an ugly workaround which works if you have only one printer (the one with the adapter cable) on USB. Does it work for you? ** Changed in: hal-cups-utils (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: cups => hal-cups-utils -- USB printer detected in hardy, not in Ibex https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308788 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
