[ale] Debian Woody CUPS Printing Nightmare

[hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 18:44, James Sumners wrote:
> Is it a USB or Parallel printer? If the latter then my grandfather's machine was
> listing two types of Canon Parallel printer ports on the same port and I had to
> choose the second one.

Parallel port.  

When I set up the printer in CUPS and am offered various connectivity
methods, one and only one parallel port appears and, if I recall, it
says "(CANON BJC-4300)" or some such off to the side, apparently having
been autodetected by something.