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  1. Bug #369850
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 369850

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FrancisT (francis-turner) wrote : Re: Cannot set up parallel port printer on Ubuntu 9.04

parport_pc is the fix for me.

sudo modprobe parport_pc got it working
adding parport_pc to /etc/modules has resulted in it working across resets.

There may be a bug with HPLIPS not properly finding the printer - it keeps on reporting "Device Communication Error" - but it prints fine...