Local printers not supported

[Eberhard Roloff]

Michael Hirsch wrote:
> I'm trying to help my Dad with a problem.  He's using KDE 3.5.x and
> his USB printer stopped working.  He can see the printer with "lsusb"
> so it would appear that USB works, but when he tries to add the
> printer with the KDE Add Printer Wizard, the choice "Local printer
> (parallel, serial, USB)" is deactivated.  He can't press the radio
> button to enable it.  The other radio buttons are all active except
> for "Serial Fax/Modem printer".
> 

What does "stopped working" mean?
Why does he need to add an apparently existing printer?

You might try with http://localhost:631 and see, whether you 
can reenable the printer and print a testpage from there.

Kind regards
Eberhard