On 13-Dec-09 17:59:29, Peter Alcibiades wrote:

Yes, what I seem to have is:

$ ls -l /dev/usb/lp0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 2009-12-12 01:59 /dev/usb/lp0

So, is this maybe the consequence of having set up the raw printer as root? But it had to be done as root apparently.

Peter

You could try adding yourself to group "lp", on the lines of (as root):

usermod -a -G lp peter

(or whatever your login name is). [I hope I've got that right ... ] Ted.

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