To add a non administrative user to the Print Operators group, you need to enter the following command into a Terminal window sudo dseditgroup -o edit -u ADMINISTRATOR -p -a USER -t user _lpadmin You will need to replace ADMINISTRATOR with the shortname of an admin account & you will need to replace USER with …
Category Archives: Printers
HP Printer Drivers v2.10 update – crashes when printing
So, if you’ve recently updated your HP Drivers to version 2.10 then you may have noticed that when you try and print a document that it crashes the application that you are trying to print from. To rectify this, you need to do the following Click on Finder Click on ‘Go’ in the menubar Click …
Image Capture Extension error
If you are getting this error on 10.7 “Image Capture Extension is trying to modify the printer settings, Type the name and password of a user in the Print Administrators group to allow this” it is most likely down to the User not running as admin, with a scanner connected to the machine the simple …
Hidden printer options
Now the default printer options in the System Preferences Pane are not that extensive, so to get access to a range of extra options you can access the CUPS conifguration pages you need to do the following: Open a web browser Enter http://localhost:631 into the address bar hit enter and you will have access to …
Enable Users to resume printers
If you are having an issue where your users printers keep on getting paused, then you will want to make use of the following solution You will need to edit the cupsd.conf file, this is located in /etc/cups/ You will need to be in an admin account, or if in a users account then su …