trying to make printer work...

[Henk Koster]

Not sure what you were trying to do in your long previous post...

I have also found it necessary to circumvent the Gnome print manager
by going directly the http://localhost:631 route. You can do that by
editing the /etc/cupsd.conf file: comment out the two lines near the 
end of the file that say "AuthType Basic" and "AuthClass System".
After "sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart" you have access to the CUPS 
administration via localhost:631.