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  1. Quantal (12.10)
  2. Bug #339752
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Comment 1 for bug 339752

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Pavel Šefránek (pavelsefranek) wrote : Re: (Intrepid) Missing parport printer in CUPS

I am experiencing the same behaviour as wczimmerman described under Ubuntu 12.04. My printer is dot matrix printer (POS printer) Star SP742. If I am trying to print through /dev/parport0 printer is fast and works without any hassles. Otherwise through /dev/lp0 it's very slow and not smooth.

Tested also under openSUSE 12.2 (kernel 3.4.6; doesn't work too) and CentOS 6.3 (kernel 2.6.32 -