I wrote awhile back about some problems with my epson. Turned out, like someone suggested, that I hadn't compiled parallel printing support into the kernel, stupid me :).
Anyway, I'm stumped again. According to /proc/parport/0, the printer is on "lp". At startup I see something to the order of "lp0: using parport0 (polling)". Because of this I assumed the printer was on /dev/lp0 and modified the printcap to that effect. However I kept getting a message that the printer does not exist. I changed the printcap to /dev/lp and now my print stuff goes to lala land. Nothing happens, the application thinks that it's been printed and nothing turns up in the spool. Where, exactly, is my printer?