18.04 has no support for my printer

[Charles Irons]

On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 18:42 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 16:26, Charles Irons <irons.charles at gmail.com> wrote:


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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Hi Liam


I am in South Africa. Johannesburg actually. We lag behind somewhat.


chas at Charles-PC:~$ ls -la /etc/cups/ppd/Deskjet-1510-series.ppd

-rw-r----- 1 root lp 17256 Oct 16 12:41 /etc/cups/ppd/Deskjet-1510-series.ppd

chas at Charles-PC:~$


I am getting comfortable with operating a terminal; Just very little
idea of which commands will help.

This old dog hopes to remain an end user.


We seem to be getting close to a solution to printing!


Take care. Chas

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