18.04 has no support for my printer

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 16:26, Charles Irons <irons.charles at gmail.com> wrote:
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> After installing HP-Lip 3.18.9 that downloaded about 400 MB and took an hour or so I got no printing.

Gosh -- that's slow. Where in the world are you?

> So used HP Device Manager to diagnose the driver

Good step, I think.

> with this result right at the end:
>
>
> warning: Insufficient permission to access file /etc/cups/ppd/Deskjet-1510-series.ppd

OK. Helpful but not as helpful as it could be!

> Now how do I change permission for the .ppd file? Or copy it elsewhere?

Well first let's see what the permissions *are*.

If you issue this command in a terminal:

ls -la /etc/cups/ppd/Deskjet-1510-series.ppd

Note, capitals are important! You may be able to tab-complete it --
type 2-3 letters of each bit (between slashes) and then press the Tab
key and Ubuntu should autocomplete it for you. If it beeps, type
another letter or 2 and try again.

Then paste the result, so we know what the permissions are.



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