Re: Getting a new printer/scanner

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On Tue, Jun 21, 2022, at 3:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-06-20 at 22:32 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Mon, 2022-06-20 at 09:38 -0700, Doug Herr wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2022, at 3:08 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> > > I'd just add that my Brother WiFi printer/scanner works just as
>> > > well
>> > > (using the manufacturer's driver blob which is essentially just a
>> > > CUPS
>> > > installation script), so no need to take up a USB port or add a
>> > > network
>> > > card. No doubt HP ones would also be fine.
>> > 
>> > More words of support for the Brother printers, I am using DCP-
>> > L2550DW.
>> > 
>> > I am still using the install tool from Brother but I did just
>> > confirm
>> > that "brlaser" has now been fully added to Fedora. 
>> > 
>> > You would do:
>> > sudo dnf install printer-driver-brlaser.x86_64
>> > 
>> > I then found it via the cups interface at:
>> > http://localhost:631
>> > 
>> > This worked well with the printer setup with wifi on the network
>> > and
>> > no USB hooked up. I was testing it on a vanilla XFCE F36 virtualbox
>> > host.
>> > 
>> > Note that scanning needed the extra steps of:
>> > sudo dnf install xsane sane-airscan
>> 
>> Excellent, thanks. I see that mine is one of the supported devices. I
>> look forward to trying it out.
>
> I installed and configured the driver as a dnssd service (using the KDE
> system settings panel), but I'm getting an error: "Unable to locate
> printer".
>
> The dnssd daemon is running, as is systemd-resolved and avahi-daemon.
> I've logged out and in again to no effect.
>
> Journalctl shows nothing relevant (using "-g dnssd" or "-g dns-sd").

Is Cups running?
If so, does it see the printer?
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