Printer Problem

[Peter]

I have a lenovo t400 laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 installed. I am running a 
virtual box with windows XP installed. I can see and use all of my usb 
printers in the windows machine. None of them show in the basic ubuntu 
system.  I have cups installed.

I have a lenovo X61s laptop and the printers are availbale in both 
ubuntu and windows virtual machine.

As work around by  saving files in a linked directory I can print from 
windows

Any suggestions

Thanks in advance


Peter Goggin