On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > >> My laptop has one to two handful of these, depending on what I'm > > >> currently playing with. > > > I taking a class at the local library; my laptop has avahi and cups > > > ports open .. which I'm not thrilled about but I like the zero-conf > > > printing ability. > > > > Why do you need cups ports open to print? > > I have no idea. I tried > $ sudo systemctl disable cups.service > $ sudo systemctl stop cups.service > > and then > $ sudo ss -anltup | grep cups > > showed no instances of cupsd. And firefox couldn't find the printer - > my only choice was "Save to PDF"
Add a printer manually using the Printers applet. Use the IPP protocol to add the printer. Jeff
