One of my computers was destroyed in an electrical mishap. After rebuilding a new system, I realized the my new motherboard had no parallel port. None of my computers except for the laptops had parallel ports, so I was stuck -- my rock-solid high-quality workhorse printer for the past 10+ years, an HP LaserJet 6MP, had no computer to connect to. Argh!I found this product - "Cables To Go 16899 6 Feet Usb To Db25 Ieee Parallel Printer Adapter". It mentioned "Windows drivers" so I wasn't too hopeful about it working under Linux (Kubuntu). But it was so cheap, I figured I'd give it a whirl. If it worked, I won the lottery. If not, I was only out (...).Well, it worked like a charm. I connected the USB connection to the back of the computer, and the Parallel connection to the printer. Loaded up the CUPS admin page and to my shock and amazement, CUPS listed an "HP LaserJet 6MP" as a local printer connected via a USB interface. Wow!!! I was able to print a test page immediately. No tinkering. No configuring. It just worked. Period. Linux rocks! I marked the printer as the "default" printer, and restarted Samba.My Windows XP laptops found the new printer share immediately, and were all able to print to the LaserJet share from the Linux box. My smb.conf still mentions "lp" (the old name of the printer; the new name is something like HP_LaserJet_6MP) in the printer commands: # Print lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -Plp %s lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -Plp %j queuepause command = /usr/sbin/lpc -Plp start printcap name = cups printing = cupsso I don't quite understand how it works -- maybe KDE/CUPS override printing commands? Or maybe the "lpq command," "lprm command," etc are only for BSD lpd and are ignored for CUPS printing. I dunno. But everything works.I am quite pleased (and relieved that I don't have to buy a new printer).