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   Jonathan N. Little to Dan Purgert   
   Re: Network printer SOLVED   
   28 Nov 23 07:42:19   
   
   From: lws4art@gmail.com   
      
   Dan Purgert wrote:   
   > On 2023-11-27, philo wrote:   
      
      
      
      
   >> At least on my Mint installation I have it figured it out.   
   >>   
   >> The automatic setup did not work so I manually entered the device URI   
   >   
   > Yep, that sounds *exactly* like it was found via mDNS (bonjour / avahi /   
   > zeroconf), and something went wrong (mine presented like 4 options as I   
   > recall ... only 1 worked, and sporadically at that).   
   >   
      
   I was suspicious of that. Output of the some of diag commands might have   
   helped pinpoint if you had posted them. I run a local DNS server and   
   give printers statically assigned IP. I also find when printers have all   
   the discovery protocols enabled can mess things up. Cuts down on the   
   multiple instances with different protocols...   
      
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   Jonathan   
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