Network printer not working, how to debug?

[Rick Stevens]

On 09/12/2011 02:16 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On 09/10/2011 01:55 PM, Gordon Charrick wrote:
>> I just bought a Brother laser all-in-one (MFC-7860DW) after determining 
>> that it should work fine with Linux. It does wired/wireless and I have 
>> it connected to my network via wireless.
> 
>> A mac and a windows machine on the network see the printer and it works 
>> fine with them.
> 
>> When I use system-config-printer to try to set up the printer in Fedora 
>> 15 the following happens:
> 
>> I click the Network Printer dropdown under "Select Device" and the 
>> printer shows up with the proper IP address. Under "Connection", "IPP 
>> network printer via DNS-SD" is selected. I choose the driver and apply 
>> the settings. It prompts to print a test page and I click to print it. 
>> The job for the test page is submitted and a window with the settings 
>> shows up and the Printer State shows as "Stopped - Destination printer 
>> does not exist!". The Device URI is 
>> "dnssd://Brother%20MFC-7860DW._ipp._tcp.local/".
> 
>> Not really sure where to go from here.
> 
> Try using something like:
> 
> ipp://192.168.2.101/ipp
> 
> replacing the IP address with the correct one for the printer, and
> see if that works. It does on F14 for a MFC-7820N using the CUPS driver.
> 
> Where you go from there depends on how you want to handle the
> printer IP address. I have mine assigned a fixed address by the DHCP
> server, though you can probably give it a static IP address in the
> printer setup.
> 
> There is a way to use the setup you have, but it involves opening up
> ports in the firewall, and running the zero-config daemon. (I forget
> the name of it.)

It's called "Avahi"
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