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Using Canon LBP-350 printer with Debian Jessie

I own an old printer, Canon LBP-350. It has both parallel port and USB port, but I never have been able to use it through USB port regardless of several trials.

Because my one-year-old main desktop PC with Debian Jessie does not have a parallel port and direct USB connection seems hopeless, I recently bought a USB to Paralell-port convertor. How wonderful, it IS a cable. It has no extra power supply input nor a box at the intermediate location of the cable.

I connect the printer and the PC with a little bit peculiar feeling and booted the printer and the PC.

Then I opened the system-config-printer panel on the XFCE4 desktop. LBP-350 had already appeared. But the printer was set to inactive state. I couldn't figure out the reason, but I went on.

I opened the URL http://lcoalhost:631 and looked into the CUPS administrative page. Yes, the printer was there. I changed the status of the printer to active and pushed the test-page button and the printer printed it.

It was not a perfect process, but was very easy!

For reminder, I copy the log entries related to this device configuration:

Feb  7 23:04:30 dossiri kernel: [  504.546074] usb 1-3: new full-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri kernel: [  504.674872] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2305
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri kernel: [  504.674874] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri kernel: [  504.674875] usb 1-3: Product: IEEE-1284 Controller
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri kernel: [  504.674876] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Prはlific Technology Inc.
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 6: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3"
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 6 was not an MTP device
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri kernel: [  504.729303] usblp 1-3:1.0: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 6 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x067B pid 0x2305
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri kernel: [  504.729323] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri udev-configure-printer: add usb-001-006
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri udev-configure-printer: device devpath is /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri systemd[1]: configure-printer@usb-001-006.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb  7 23:04:31 dossiri systemd[1]: Unit configure-printer@usb-001-006.service entered failed state.

I don't know what they mean, but the device's entering the initial inactive state seems to be reported by systemd.

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