USB - Parallel printer port & Canon BJ10sx

Acer Aspire One running Ubuntu Netbook 9.10 (It may have been updated to v10 - how can I check?)

I've got a generic USB-parallel printer port adapter. It works fine under winxp printing to a Canon BJ10sx.

I'm trying to get the BJ10sx printing under Linux.

If I use the 'System testing' utility
I get this:

Code:

P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1
N: bus/usb/002/007
S: char/189:134
E: UDEV_LOG=3
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1
E: MAJOR=189
E: MINOR=134
E: DEVNAME=/dev/bus/usb/002/007
E: DEVTYPE=usb_device
E: DRIVER=usb
E: PRODUCT=67b/2305/202
E: TYPE=0/0/0
E: BUSNUM=002
E: DEVNUM=007
E: SUBSYSTEM=usb
E: ID_VENDOR=Prolific_Technology_Inc.
E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=Prolific\x20Technology\x20Inc.
E: ID_VENDOR_ID=067b
E: ID_MODEL=IEEE-1284_Controller
E: ID_MODEL_ENC=IEEE-1284\x20Controller
E: ID_MODEL_ID=2305
E: ID_REVISION=0202
E: ID_SERIAL=Prolific_Technology_Inc._IEEE-1284_Controller
E: ID_BUS=usb
E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:070101:070102:ff00ff:
E: DEVLINKS=/dev/char/189:134I'm guessing that Ubuntu has already loaded the drivers for it.

When I go to add a printer, I'm asked for a device URI. What do I enter?

And finally - printer driver?
I found this - http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Canon/Canon-BJ-10e - but I have no clue as to what to do with it.


TIA

 

You may have better luck on ubuntuforums...

Checking release:
cat /etc/apt/sources.list|grep lucid

will show all entries for "lucid" (codename for 10.04), which should be none if you haven't upgraded.

When it asks for a URI, I believe that means it can't detect a printer and assumes that it must be networked...but that is pure guess.

The driver is present, if ghostscript is installed.

Sorry to be so little help.