18.04 has no support for my printer

[Brian]

On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 20:39:41 +0200, Charles Irons wrote:

> Hi Brian
> I repeated the usermod command, whoami and hostname.
> Results are:
> chas at Charles-PC:~$ sudo usermod -a -G lp charles
> [sudo] password for chas:
> usermod: user 'charles' does not exist
> chas at Charles-PC:~$ sudo usermod -a -G lp Charles
> usermod: user 'Charles' does not exist
> chas at Charles-PC:~$ whoami
> chas

chas is your username. 

> chas at Charles-PC:~$ hostname
> Charles-PC
> chas at Charles-PC:~$ sudo usermod -a -G lp chas
> [sudo] password for chas:
> chas at Charles-PC:~$
> 
> The last usermod for chas gets no reply

I am not going even going to attempt to sort this out. The changing of
permissions is not a fruitful route to getting you to print. Take it by
all means, but I am not following.
 
> After restarting my PC I tried to print a 2 page document. No output at all.
> HP Device manager shows Started/Processing and Pending on the job both with
> an hourglass.

Lots of reasons for this. Do you fancy doing 'lpinfo -v' again? As I've
implied - no usb or hp lines means no printing. No "ifs" or "buts". Got
that?

-- 
Brian.