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There is no Printer listed in the Control Center or in The Main Menu. I installed hplip with the terminal, but I don't know what else I should do now. Any help would sure be appreciated, thanks.

There is no Printer listed in the Control Center or in The Main Menu. I installed hplip with the terminal, but I don't know what else I should do now. Any help would sure be appreciated, thanks.

Bonjour,
If you have OpenRC, try this :
sudo pacman -S cups-openrc gutenprint
sudo rc-update add cupsd

And add you to cups group :
sudo groupadd cups
sudo usermod -a -G fuse user

sudo reboot

and will you tell us the sweet secret of how and which printer you install, or should we - as usual - use our oracle balls?
and you should read this mandatory too  https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,1923.0.html

Thank you

why create a group "cups"?

If he need admin printer, he need group "sys" or "wheel"  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Users_and_groups#Group_list

He need not gutenprint, if he install hplip (evidently a HP printer).

and fuse is not necessary too, printers today use USB directly (if not 30 years old printer).

My HP printer under openrc workks very well, imho without cups group

install printer is more easier

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pacman -S cups-openrc
rc-update add cupsd
rc-service cupsd start
hp-setup (if he use hplip)

if permission problem, add user to sys or wheel sudo usermod -a -G sys  user

My Canon ip3000, no.

For canon Pixma 3000  Canon has not released a proprietary iP3000 Driver. You must install and use gutenprint . That is reason, why i never bought canon -> because Canon provides no linux support (how is actually situation i dont know).