Hello, Till: There were two issues. First, as I first reported, the driver for HP DeskJet 672 did not work and the "printer may not be connected" message appeared. So the next issue was the problems involving the make file for the hplip-3.12.6 tarball which I downloaded. I never did get this to work. This package included a manual which would seem to be very helpful. Perhaps if I persisted I might have been successful, but there were missing dependencies (sane). While perusing various sites I suddenly came across the CUPS 1.5.0 and followed the instructions which explicitly mentioned the parallel port. In contrast, the hplip package needed me to use the parallel build as an option. When I used that option with the hplip the process in make did not object to me using that option but rather stalled (not finding sane). It was the CUPS 1.5.0 that quickly installed or enabled the 670C driver to get my printer to work. At this point I guess my only remaining questions are with regard to getting the hplip package to make. I think that the bug is somewhat incomplete documentation of the manual, although the manual seems to be pretty good for someone with more than minimal experience with these installations. I also had a hard time with permissions; once in the root-administrator desktop I couldn't get at the system to do the make as a user. Once more, I think, lack of knowledge. In answering your question, ignoring the "..not connected" message and trying to print did not work. The CUPS 1.5.0 HP670C installation enabled successful printing. The printer is connected to a parallel port in the Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV motherboard (no USB adapter).
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