18.04 has no support for my printer

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 16:57:55 UTC 2018


On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 18:49, Brian <ad44 at cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

> We already know. They are in another post in this thread.

Ah, good catch. Sorry, I had missed that.

OK, they look correct.

So, the alternative issue is that Charles' user is not in the correct
group as apparently the group permissions aren't enough.

Charles -- what is your login name on this machine?

For instance, if it's "charles" then try this:

sudo usermod -a -G lp charles

Then reboot and try again.

Solution from here:

https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/485232




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