Printing & Copying

Problem:
I have an HP OfficeJet D135 plugged into the second parallel port of my Netgear PS110 Printserver (192.168.1.2). I'm using CUPS to print to this printer from Ubuntu. I couldn't use the "printers" gui frontend to add a cups printer. I had to make sure that the device URI was exactly as below. The /P2 tells cups to use the second parallel port on the printserver.

Fix:
1. Open /etc/cups/printers.conf as root by typing "sudo gedit /etc/cups/printers.conf"
2. Add the following lines:

Info OfficeJet-D135
DeviceURI lpd://192.168.1.2/P2
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0

3. Save the file and close it.
4. Restart cups by typing "sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart"
5. Print a test page to see if it works. (if it doesn't, give up and use windows :)