On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 11:21 PM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-11-05 at 17:49 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > > I have a brother printer at home connected via dnssd. If I take my > > laptop to work and then come home, then try to print it sits in the > > queue. Hover over the printer icon (kde) I see "unable to locate > > printer". > > > > Rebooting gets the printer working. Restarting cups does not. > > Wondering, are you rebooting between work and home, or suspending? > > There may be printer discovery issues if only suspending. Perhaps some > of the services should be restarted, but aren't. > > I've found that, from time to time, I have to restart cups-browsed and > cups, when something has changed on the LAN. Printing just about > always works as expected on my old CentOS box, but Fedora requires a > sadistic amount of horse-whipping to print to the same printer, whether > I'm printing directly to the printer (it's a networked Hewlett Packard > P3015 laserjet), or via the CentOS server. > > To make matters worse, Fedora (40) keeps on defaulting to stopping the > printer on errors, rather than simply aborting the job, and that is a > seriously annoying setting. > > Several older releases of Fedora ago, I didn't have this problem. > > Inconsistent settings is something I hate about this "discover the > printer automatically, all the time" methodology instead of setting > your printer up manually, once. > > Yes, I'm suspending and then waking when I get home.
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