Re: unable to locate printer on network change

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2024-11-05 at 17:49 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> I have a brother printer at home connected via dnssd.  If I take my laptop
> to work and then come home, then try to print it sits in the queue.  Hover
> over the printer icon (kde) I see "unable to locate printer".
>
> Rebooting gets the printer working.  Restarting cups does not.
> Any ideas?

That very occasionally happens to me, though my machine is a desktop
that sits beside the printer. The following seems to work most of the
time:

$ sudo avahi-browse -a -t

That will list visible devices on the local network, and seems to be
sufficient to wake up the printer. There may be a shorter way to do it
but I can't be bothered investigating.

Failing that, power-cycling the printer should do the trick.

poc