On 1/28/24 11:46, Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:43:22 GMT Thelma wrote:
Systems show Avahi-daemon status: started.
but it I don't know how it helps me find a local printer.
I'm puzzled as printers were working last week without any problems.
I did not do any update or modification to the system but all of a sudden
they stop working "Unable to locate printer"
The solution was to change printer setting:
lpd://BRN30055C898DF9/BINARY_P1
lpd://brother-5370/BINARY_P1
with:
lpd://printer-IP-address/BINARY_P1
lpd://printer-IP-address/BINARY_P1
How to set Avahi-daemon to start automatically deleted printer?
I don't think avahi is needed unless you are printing from different temporary
clients and you want the printers to be automatically discovered on the
network. If this is not your use case, you could try something like this:
lpadmin -p 3170-color -E -v ipp://<IP_address_here>/BINARY_P1 -m everywhere
Which will use the CUPS driverless method:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Driverless_printing
These instruction on Gengoo Driveless printing are not clear.
I tried to follow this example and run:
lpadmin -p foobar -E -v ipp://10.0.0.106/ipp -m everywhere
did not create file: foobar.ppd in /etc/cups/ppd/
ls -al /etc/cups/ppd/
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 26945 Nov 30 2020 3170-color.ppd
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 26929 Nov 30 2020 3170-color.ppd.O
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 16460 Jan 27 13:48 5370.ppd
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 25537 Jan 27 13:46 5370.ppd.O
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 13 17:47 .keep_net-print_cups-0
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 16476 Apr 7 2022 L6200.ppd
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 16476 Apr 7 2022 L6200.ppd.O
But it did create foobar local raw printer name foobar, and when I tried to
print to it, it spit out strange characters.
I noticed you substitute after <IP-address>/ipp with <IP_address_here>/BINARY_P1
This is not very clear in Gentoo Documentation
Trying it:
lpadmin -p 3170-color2 -E -v ipp://10.0.0.105/BINARY_P1 -m everywhere
It did not create any file name: 3170-color2.ppd ; but it did create entry in
printer entry 3170-color2 - local raw printer
and printing to it works OK. Thank you!
Can you explain the <IP-address>/ipp vs. <IP_address_here>/BINARY_P1
