Need administrator privilege to print?

[Philip Herlihy]

A friend has an HP Officejet V45 printer. She can print to it from an admin
account, but not from a limited account (her housemate's). I tried adding a
full set of permissions (inc "manage printers") to the user account, and
also reinstalled the printer driver.

HP's support people say you have to be an administrator to print (which I
find extraordinary). Am I missing something? Any suggestions will be
appreciated!

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

This, I'm afraid, is not unusual. HP often provides very poorly
designed print drivers, which need elevated permissions to function.
This is especially true of their multi-function devices.

Bruce Chambers

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[Philip Herlihy]

Thanks, Bruce!

It's not just printers - I have several user-level programs (including Corel
Painter 8) which demand admin privilege. Not good enough these days. When
Longhorn comes out it will be much more locked down by default and I suspect
some software vendors will become very uncomfortable.

Regarding the printer - presumably if some files and folders are opened up
to all users we can get around the need to bump up the user account to admin
level. Would you know what was necessary to achieve this, or isn't it
possible?