Printers are not available

[rsanden]

This is a duplicate of #22 .
However, I can't seem to re-open that issue. It's not fixed.
We should close this one and re-open that ticket.

[jasonp019]

I have the same issue on Ubuntu 20.10. How is it that Linux has devolved to the point that its applications are no longer able to see and access the system-defined printers?!? This wasn't an issue over two decades ago -- why is it happening now?

[lucyllewy]

The ability to use cups grants the gimp snap effective ownership of your computer. Because of this it is not automatically given this access level, allowing you to choose whether to grant the permission. You may opt into allowing cups access via running sudo snap connect gimp:cups-control or by using the Snap Store app to grant the permission via a gui.

[jasonp019]

What if you don't use snap? If you don't use the snap system you can't access the printers provided by the system?

[lucyllewy]

If you don't use snap, then this is the wrong place to be. This repository and the issues here are about the gimp snap package.

[jasonp019]

You can thank Google's search for that. However, I removed the snap version I had apparently unintentionally installed and went back to the apt-installed version and all worked as it should. Thank you for the suggestions and help with identifying that issue. Have a great day!