Connecting to a Zeroconfig/Avahi printer

Tue May 15 13:57:08 UTC 2012

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:25:47PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 14.05.2012 23:22, schrieb Steven Stern:
> > I have a really nice HP printer that's currently connected via USB cable
> > to this system.  I need to move it out of cable range.  My OS/X and iOS
> > devices are able to find it and print to it using the magic of Bonjour.
> >  Is there a way for Fedora to use it via Avahi, rather than ipp and
> > giving the printer a fixed IP address?
> 
> 
> http://localhost:631/
> 
> CUPS does find network-printers via avahi

Ensure that your Fedora client system's firewall has port 5353/udp
(mDNS) and 631/udp (IPP client) open, and things should generally Just
Work(tm).

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