Printer Problem

[Peter]

The situation with usb is complicated. All other programs apart from 
cups can see devices on USB ports, including scanners and multifunction 
HDD unit, external usb disk drives.Virtual machine can also see all usb 
devices including printers scanners and hubs.

It is only the cups program that is unable to printers, either usb or 
network. I don't have a wifi printer so I can't check whether the cups 
program would be able to pick it up.

So my question is simple: Is there any other progrqm apart from cups 
which can be used to run printers in Ubuntu?

If not do I need to reinstall linux and start again?

Regards

Peter Goggin