Adding network printer does not work on fresh Arch install

seth · 2023-07-23 16:39:33

Don't use resolved. I don't. I won't. I'm happy.

The resolved-ate-my-mdns workaround also requires the full mdns resolver plugin.
Did you or did you only add mdns.allow?

I search for network printers in the respective GUI dialog

We're still using localhost:631 for this. Afaiu you managed to add the printer there but printing itself fails (what atm. is a greater concern than whatever stuff KDE clobbered together there)

Btw, you do have https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/cups-pdf/ for a driverless/airprint printer support?

milkytwix · 2023-07-23 17:44:30

Regarding resolved: Why and how? I sure want to learn, maybe that is worth a complete seperate topic. Got me alink to learn? Just a starting point...

Speaking of full mdns: I didn't chose the full mdns module, just did that as well as the change in /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf.
This has definitely changed something. Whenever I was searching for network printers I would end up finding two Epsons, on "usual" and one driverless.
Now the driverless one is gone, and with it ofc the selectable driver "IPP Everywhere" - and within the driverlist there is no WF-4830. So at this point I could provide a driver manually, but this would be senseless because I can achive that way more easily with lpadmin
I can use the first driver which is provided (Epson 9-pin-series) and get a warning, but printing then works - kind of. Wrong paper size (can be overriden directly at the printer), but working.
I was now just using cups interface (localhost:631).

cups-pdf is part of the manjaro printer package, which I completely installed (not the meta package, just it's content) to have comparability:

pacman -Q cups-pdf
cups-pdf 3.0.1-7

Last edited by milkytwix (2023-07-23 17:45:08)

seth · 2023-07-24 14:00:58

https://man.archlinux.org/man/core/syst … en#OPTIONS
YOu can meanwhile configure the FallbackDNS

Since there is some avahi aspect to your situation, I'd suggest to try the behavior on bare metal to get any interference of the host out of the way (just because it won't work w/ NAT at all doesn't mean there cannot be interference from the bridge)

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