> I am having trouble setting up my printer on my maching (slackware 8.1).  I 
> can print to it directly by sending the output to /dev/usb/lp0 but I don't 
> know how to set up the parameters for LPR.  Please help!!!

Try this site: http://www.linuxprinting.org/

They seem to have docs for configuring a printer with various programs (cups, 
lpr, lpd, etc...).  Unfortunately I'm used to using config programs like the 
ones redhat provides.