Florian,
The user is in both lp and lpadmin groups, but I configure the printer as root.
It's quite likely I have something mixed up - the system is 15 years old and
I've ran into several problems over the years. Nothing this unsurmountable
though. I'm really stuck.
The output you requested:
# dpkg -l cups\* libcups\* ghostscript\* libgs? gs-\* | awk '/^i/{print
$1,$2,$3}'
ii cups 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
ii cups-bsd 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
ii cups-client 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
ii cups-common 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.0.2-4
ii cupsys 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
ii cupsys-bsd 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
ii cupsys-client 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
ii cupsys-common 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
ii ghostscript-x 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny0
ii gs-common 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny0
ii libcups2 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
ii libcupsimage2 1.3.8-1lenny4.1
ii libcupsys2 1.3.8-1+lenny6
ii libgs8 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny0