Cups is funny about passwords. It's usually built to recognise a named printer admin group (often called lpadmin). If you are a member of this group, you can use your user name and password to get admin access. Otherwise you must use root and the root password.

You can check in /etc/group to see if there is a group that looks like it might be a printer administration group. If there is, you can use su or sudo to add yourself to it for future convenience.

There are more ppd files in cndrvcups-lb-3.50-1.tar.gz in Sources directory from the Canon driver archive, for your printer I think it's one of:
CNCUPSD570ZK.ppd
CNCUPSD570ZS.ppd
(which one to use? I don't know...)

tried using root and that did not work either. Crazy. Like I mentioned above, I now see the printer in the print que and access it in properties. Tried two different .ppd files and neither worked. I'm going to look for the others I found earlier today. I posted a link to the Canon installation manual earlier. For me it's still a little too cryptic to understand.

fusionstate- about to go super critical!

OK, I think I know what's going on. The Canon Linux package tells you to make sure cups is the latest version. Considering they don't know what the latest will be at any given time a user might be installing the software, that recommendation is meaningless.

You should install the latest version of cups that is available for your distro and release, and install the Canon package how they tell you. Then, you might have to install the printer with cups, or it might already be there.

If you want to manage cups, try this from a terminaland then try to log in from the browser.

Are you sure lp is the correct group? In some distros, lp only gives you ownership of the printer device. That's important to let you actually print, but there may be a different group for admin rights over cups. I would say check in /etc/groups and add yourself to both groups if both are there.

I believe at this point I'll look into an upgrade to 18 to see if that supports the D570 out of box or perhaps the installation is easier. At least I can say: If this is the worst of my Linux experience, it is no comparison to Microsoft products. My worst experience there was a product I purchased that never worked, as MS had changed the Net-dde pipes somehow. I had to repurchase the product I had just purchased to a get a version that worked. Locked into a project.

I'll look into some upgrade threads... Or be back at some point.

fusionstate.

You could try using the Canon driver installer also, maybe it's smart enough to configure the printer proprely in your system (can't say it is, no Canon printer experience sorry)