Whew... Again you have saved my sanity. It just printed the test page and I'm a giant smiley face - thank you so much ! ! ! I owe you twice (At least if not more)rcrsn51 wrote:In the list of CUPS devices, select AppSocket/HPJetDirect.
On the next screen, change "socket:" to "parallel:/dev/usb/lp0"
Please report back.
Near the end of this I started to understand that I needed the dev/usb/lp0
Not having the usb part was clearly an issue.
Could you explain "parallel:"? I don't remember needing this in the earlier problem with a built in parallel port. Can you spell this out for a dumb head newbee?