A Puzzle

[bruce]

I have been trying to get my PSC1315 printer to work for several weeks.  
Wondering if there might be a permission/owner problem I snooped about a 
bit and saw what's below; the root directory is owned by hpojlp with 
group lp.  /etc and /var also are owned by hpojlp

bruce at blacky:/$ cd /
bruce at blacky:/$ ls -al
total 180
drwxr-xr-x   31 hpojlp lp    4096 2005-09-25 16:23 .
drwxr-xr-x   31 hpojlp lp    4096 2005-09-25 16:23 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root   root  4096 2006-01-03 15:45 bin
------------------snip--------------------
drwxr-xr-x   12 root   root 24576 2005-12-27 16:17 .dev
drwxr-xr-x  100 hpojlp lp    4096 2006-01-04 11:53 etc
---------------------snip-----------------------
drwxr-xr-x   20 root   root  4096 2006-01-02 13:37 usr
drwxr-xr-x   14 hpojlp lp    4096 2005-12-28 10:08 var

Does this make any sense?
bruce