Firstly, is there a recommended way of doing printing with Debian? I see various mentions of LPD, LPRng, CUPS, PDQ and printtool, and there are a large number of printer-related packages in the archive, many of which conflict with one another, but I can't find a document to help me decide what to install.
I tried printtool, but it says it can't find my parallel port. Well, the printer does react when I do "modprobe parport_pc" or "echo foo > /dev/lp0", so there is some kind of physical connection. My printer's a Canon BJC-4300 and it has worked with Debian before, but it was years ago and I can't remember how I did it. Chances are everything will have changed by now, anyway. Yes, I did look at The Printing HOWTO, but it doesn't say very much about parallel ports and I can't have much confidence in a document that talks about "kernels >= 2.1.33" when I'm running 2.4.8. Edmund
