Re. Total confusion

[Sidney Brooks]

In answer to some questions.
My ISP connection is dialup.
When I try to install the lp module in the debian install process, I get 
the message "installation failed". I think that I succeeded at one time 
afterward using apt-get. It still didn't work.I tried dmesg and no printer 
was shown.
Testing with echo "hello" > /dev/lp0 does not use /etc/printcap. However, I 
have used magicfilter and apsfilter with no success.