How do you get a parallel printer working?

This is vaugely addressed in one of the FAQS, but that description
seems oriented to 386BSD on a clone and all the books I've looked at
seem to only address serial printers.

I assume that it's possible and the result is a vanilla type text only
output with out some sort of special device driver.

Are there any such drivers out there?  Is this the kind of thing that
has to be compiled into the kernel?  Any pointers to information on
how to go about doing this?

--Mark

markg@teleport.com