Have you loaded all the necessary modules?
I believe there is a USB printer module. 
Do you see the printer in the USB device list?

Brian D
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Hildreth [mailto:s_p_hildreth@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 8:55 PM
> To: s_p_hildreth@yahoo.com
> Cc: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Printing With HP 970cse and CUPS
> 
> 
> Howdy all, got my Gentoo 1.3b up and working great (including 
> that damn
> 8 hour OpenOffice compile!) and now onto printing.
> 
> I am using a HP Deskjet 970cse via usb. Created the dev node
> (/dev/usb/lp0) and changed the access to 0644 owner root:lp and put
> myself into the lp group. 
> 
> I created the node as the USB Printer HOWTO suggests to do, 
> located here
> http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x342.html
> 
> The same error continues to happen as either me or root, so I 
> dont think
> it is a permission issue.
> 
> When I go to submit a job (be it anything including a test 
> from the web
> based administration tool it gives me this error:
> 'client-error-not-possible'
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions!
> 
> Regards,
> Steven
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