printing through a zip drive

[mis]

I have gotten my zip drive mounted and able to access. My printer is attached through it and I can't print anything. I don't get any errors but the printer does nothing, not even an initialization. It did do this when I mounted the zip drive however. This is my /etc/printcap file

apollo:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/apollo:\
:mx#0:\
:lp=/dev/lp1

I got this out of a book called Practical Linux. The printer is an Apollo p-1200. On linuxprinting .org it said this printer is partially supported. At this point I only need to print files so I don't need anyh of the "bells and whistels. What am I missing? I tried it as /dev/lp0 also. I tried

lptest > /dev/lp0(1)

and got nothing either. It does show in /proc/devices and in lsmod. Should /dev/lp0(1) be a link and if so to what?

Debian 2.2

Thanks,
Mis

[navy-linux]

Have you tried to print without the zip drive hooked up? I would give that a try.
I have a external zip drive and a Canon BJ4200 printer. I had no problems printing with the zip drive hooked up. I am also using Mandrake 7.2.

[bdg1983]

Not having a zip drive myself, but I would imagine the passthru port would be transparent to lp.

As suggested by navy-linux, try printing without the zip connected first to make sure it was working before and to rule out the zip as the cause of it not printing.

[mis]

Originally posted by mdwatts:
<STRONG>Not having a zip drive myself, but I would imagine the passthru port would be transparent to lp.

As suggested by navy-linux, try printing without the zip connected first to make sure it was working before and to rule out the zip as the cause of it not printing.</STRONG>

Still not working if I take it directly and not throught the zip. Tried with magicfilter also and still nothing.

[tiw]

try changing /dev/lp1 in your /etc/printcap file to /dev/lp0