On Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 7:34:55 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
> you will have to print from a sys-usb qubes then most likely if using usb.  
> the template you install printer drivers to is that one. You can try to add 
> single usb device instead if using latest qubes. 
> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/
> 
> Scroll to  "Attaching a single USB device to a qube (USB passthrough)"
> 
> Then you can attach the single usb device to an appvm and possibly print to 
> it?  No idea though I've never tried it,  maybe someone with more experience 
> can chime in.  Actually I have dont it with an android phone and its worked.  
> Before I would have to transfer files from the usbvm.  So maybe it works for 
> printers too I would give it a shot.
> 
>   Though,  most people use network printer from a disposable vm using a whole 
> separate template.  cause printer drivers is untrusted.  first virus i ever 
> got as a young child was from a printer driver disk straight from factory.

That worked. I opened a terminal on Fedora-23 template VM, ran "sudo dnf 
install qubes-usb-proxy" without quotes, opened a XTerm from the System Tools 
Xfce start menu, ran "qvm-usb", found my printer listed, then ran "qvm-usb -a 
disp[#] sys-usb:[#-#]" replacing # with whatever number the disposable app VM I 
had open that I wanted to print from and the other #s replaced with the numbers 
listed next to my printer with the previous command "qvm-usb" and no brackets 
or quotes. Printed just fine. I wish qvm-usb was available through the GUI 
Qubes VM Manager. Since it's not I have to save a Firefox bookmark to the page 
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/ so I don't forget the commands I need to use 
to attach my printer to another disposable VM next time I need to print. 

Thanks for all your help you guys. My printer now works!

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