[SOLVED] USB Parallel Printer Cable Setup

[dudy'O]

Tonight I spent several hours trying to get an HP LaserJet 6P to print correctly. It came down to a driver and connection settings issue.

Many thanks everyone and especially to thodges999 for all of his/her hard work and dedication to helping others.

Type of USB - Parallel Cable:
Monoprice - USB-CN36


From Cups Manager:
Description: HP LaserJet 6p
Location:
Driver: HP LaserJet 6P - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.6 (grayscale, 2-sided printing)
Connection: parallel:/dev/usb/lp0

 
~ $ lsusb 
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port

Thanks again!!

[user_of_ubuntu]

Now I have the problem. When I initially hooked up the USB - paralell cable it worked great. I went to bed and the next morning it had stopped. Anyone have any ideas. My head is reeling from reading all these posts.

[dflora]

I had a similar problem. I eventually got it working by using a generic printer,

Generic PCL Laser Printer

with device uri,

parallel:/dev/usb/lp0


However as my printer was working yesterday before I "recovered" my operating system, UBUNTU 10.10. So it is possible that it won't work tomorrow.

Peter

[Fatty_Matty]

Just started running Ubunutu 10.10 today for the first time - installed an old HP Laserjet 1100 with a Parallel to USB converter and it works a treat now.

Thank you!!!!

[oojanen]

This is what did the trick for me:

If you don't have the file /dev/usblp already, do

1. Use "parallel:/dev/usb/lp0" as the printer URI

then

2. do "sudo modprobe usblp" in the terminal.

Voila.

I have Ubuntu 11.10 + HP Laserjet 6P conneted through usb-parallel cable "Prolific technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel port".

PS. To load automatically at boot up, add a line with "usblp" into the file /etc/modules

[gsa390]

I had a similar problem. I eventually got it working by using a generic printer,

Generic PCL Laser Printer

with device uri,

parallel:/dev/usb/lp0


However as my printer was working yesterday before I "recovered" my operating system, UBUNTU 10.10. So it is possible that it won't work tomorrow.

Peter

thank you!!!!!!

[Handssolow]

Thanks to those posting in this thread.
I bought a parallel-usb cable because my new motherboard doesn't have a parallel port for my printer. System Tools>System Settings>Printers doesn't detect my printer.
dmesg gave this-
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
lsusb gave this-
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port

I added Oneiric proposed packages but it didn't seem to made any difference.
In Firefox I entered http://localhost:631/ to configure CUPS then Administration>Add Printer
then I used "parallel:/dev/usb/lp0" as the device URL

It's working so I don't need to but a PC1 printer socket card after all.