[ale] Printing Woes

[griffisb at bellsouth.net]

This mini printserver thing has got me knocked. I did a modconf to make sure lp, parport and parport_pc is enabled. I do an lsmod, and see lp,parport_pc and parport. Did an apt-get install gs, pnm2ppa, magicfilter. Ran magicfilterconfig and selected pnm2ppa-720-color. Can't print from the Debian PC. Darn! I see /dev/lp0, but can't print.

I jumped on a Windows machine and connected via Samba. I see the printer (hpdj722c) and can connect. Windows asked me to install the drivers for it, and chugged away. I printed a document to it, and "lpc status" shows
lp:
     queuing is enabled
     printing is enabled
     1 entry in spool area
     hpdj722c is ready and printing

But - it's not printing. It's just sitting there. I should have installed that "other" operating system and tried printing, just to make sure the parallel port is working. I'm about ready to drop-kick this PC and pick up a different one to act as a print/file server. 

Any suggestions? The printer works (tested on my SuSE box). The parallel cable works. I THINK the print setup is correct, but I may have missed something along the way.

(gotta say, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade were pretty simple!)