Re: Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu>]

Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:

>>>
>>>
>> Sorry, I should have mentioned I also found that with Google, and tried
>> restarting avahi-daemon without success.
>
> How did you setup the printer? 
>
> Try by using a "socket://" or "ipp://" URI and the IP address of the 
> printer/machine instead using its name to avoid "dnssd" service comes 
> into play.

Thanks. It worked fine for a couple of weeks, then stopped again. After
that I reconfigured the printer using socket://<ip>:9100 (for an hp
printer) and it seems to work again without requiring a reboot or mystic
incantations.

Cheers,

Tyler