Thanks to all who responded.
This is the one that gave me an idea that worked:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Paul Johnson wrote:
If you have that same problem I do, you will know it if you do
system-config-printer and say you want a new printer, and it will list
several devices, all of which are related to your usb plugged in
printer. Before the new system-config-printer came out, I used to see
like
/dev/usb0
/dev/hal-hp1300
/dev/lp0
all of which seemed to point at the same device, and it was never
consistent which one I was supposed to use.
Using CUPS to remove the printer and add it again did the trick.
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