Hi there,

I have gone through the streps, the only thing you have missed is that first you have to accept the printer for printing and then enable the printer for printing.

Syntax : #accept -d printer name
#enable -d printer name
This will activate ur printer.

When u give the command lpstat -t
it gives the output as
#printername on port ans the status as enable.

Here the -d symbol stands for Default printer. This should most probably be a serial printer. For a printer connected as parallel printer from a PC, you neednot