Cannot add printer to child account

So partial success! There wasn't anything in screen time settings, but I made him 'admin' instead of 'standard' user and all of a sudden the printer appeared!

I checked it was this (rather than other things i messed about with) by turning the user back to 'standard' and then back to 'admin' again. And the same for my other child, turning them from 'standard' to 'admin' and again the printer appered

So when they are 'admin' the printer appears, but when they are 'standard' the printer disappears. I haven't been adding or disabling any printers, just changing their user type and checking printer settings.

Is this normal behaviour - that 'standard' users don't have access to printers but 'admin' users do?

Did you also disable Screen Time and check with Standard user?

Yes, but disabling screen time on and off didn't make any difference. The only thing that is working is making them admin.

I wonder if it's something to do with the fact that I set them up as child account way back when apple didn't really do family sharing and all that, but you could have a child account on macOS. They've moved away from that and are using family sharing and having apple IDs for all your family. But as the accounts were set up before all this I wonder if it's got confused somewhere along the line. I could start a fresh account for them, but that seems too much hard work :)

I'll leave them as admin for now - they are young enough that I trust them not to mess about with it. Once they become teenagers however....

Hi, yes the printer shows up when searching for new printers, so his account is available to use, so it's not a printer setting thing.

His account is managed by screen time (although it's within the time when he has access), but I agree it's something to do with screen time.

When you go to add it, it looks all fine and then when you go to add the printer it seems happy that it can do it, but just doesn't do anything

Might disable screen time, etc, and see if that makes any difference.

Thanks

Hi - printer sharing was already on, so doesn't seem to be that, but see post above - seems to be to do with user type, which seems odd for printer settings.