On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:33:45PM +0100, Willi Mann wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to get a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4 Plus working with the > 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port usb-to-parallel > adapter. Unfortunately it does not work with my Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 4 > Plus, and an Epson Stylus Color 850. I could verify that at least the Epson > works under Windows XP out of the box. With the usb-to-parallel adapter? > "does not work": For the Laserjet I've successfully printed hello by > echo -e "hello\f" > /dev/usb/lp0. However, any attempt to print with cups > causes the Laserjet to show "22 IO-Error" on its display. The device in > cups is set to parallel:/dev/usb/lp0. Try asking on the cups list if the device needs to be set to something else. You might need a different protocol to talk to a usb converter, I really don't know. What driver is binding to this device, the usblp driver? greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
