+1 for shutting off cups-browsed. An Ubuntu 20.04 installation kept finding a network HP laser printer over and over until I disabled that auto configuration.
On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 5:02 PM Howard White <hwh...@vcch.com> wrote: > John, > > I have a Xerox 6280 that does similar crap. The first Google search I > did came across a dpkg -config command that turned off the automatic > remote printer configuration. I just looked again and found this link: > > < > https://askubuntu.com/questions/345083/how-do-i-disable-automatic-remote-printer-installation > > > > where you turn off cups-browsed. All of which is to say there is more > than one way to get there. You just have to be confident that you can > manually configure your printer. > > Configure your printer and ignore the automatic stuff. > > Howard > > On 3/13/22 16:21, John F. Eldredge wrote: > > I have a single printer, an HP Laserjet MFP M29W. This is a > > black-and-white laser printer with built-in scanner, connected to > > happening Ubuntu machine via an USB cable. For some reason, it shows up > > in Ubuntu as two separate printers, named HP_LaserJet_MFP_M28-M31 and > > HP_LaserJet_MFP_M29W_7F4E86_ but using the same printer driver built > > into the kernel, drvless.ppd. I can print to either one. Removing either > > printer definition in settings results in it reappearing a few > > seconds later. Does anyone know why this is happening? Should I disable > > one of them? > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > <mailto:nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAJfAAY%2BL_DM9zcDzY-tWQzYP13jkvpZO2VsX0fnWAUbvxOVT6g%40mail.gmail.com > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAJfAAY%2BL_DM9zcDzY-tWQzYP13jkvpZO2VsX0fnWAUbvxOVT6g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > >. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/da9e41e1-b9b6-68bb-bdaf-ac98693b1043%40vcch.com > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CADPPtrqmJGvbFkJrOOynZfVb%2Bn4mgDRKB_WAvg43nc66jnpbug%40mail.gmail.com.
