2.1 Using a parallel port

If your computer sports a parallel port, and your printer connects via a parallel port, then you may be able to access your printer via the printer port.

The first step is to install the parallel printer port driver:

sudo modprobe lp  
    

This loads the parallel port driver. If the drivers correctly load, then a new device should be found. You can locate that new device using the following command:

ls -l /dev/lp*  
    

This device is owned by root (as a user) and lp as a group.