Canon BJC-240 refuses to print

Thu Nov 11 17:27:17 UTC 2004

> 1) I can't change the printer type (on the Connection tab on the
> printer properties) to Local printer. Every time I change something
> there, close the dialog and open it again, it goes to "Network
> printer: CUPS Printer (IPP)" and "URI: parallel:/dev/unknown-parallel0".
> I can even change the URI, but it will always revert back to
> unknown-parallel0...
> 

is the parallel port module loaded on the computer?

I had a problem with my parallel printer, and it turned out the
problem was the module "lp" wasn't loaded at boot time:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2701