Lately we’ve been getting calls from Adjuncts with Macs that they can’t print because they need an admin password to unpause the printer. This is the message that pops up.
This is pretty annoying for them, so Devin found a way to stop this message from cropping up every again.
As root, or in a Terminal session with su privileges, edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
Find this section:
<Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Res
tart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
AuthType Default
Require user @AUTHKEY(system.print.admin) @admin @lpadmin
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
Remove the items you don’t want limited: Pause-Printer, Resume-Printer, Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job, etc.
Save the file, quit the editor, and restart your computer.
After restarting, you should be able to pause/resume the print queue as any user.
Source: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20081107092520601