Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future

Posted Jun 19, 2021 10:30 UTC (Sat) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613)
In reply to: Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future by Wol
Parent article: Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future

> How do you set up a printer with a non-ambiguous name, other than - for every PC! - editing the queue name and swearing when Windows promptly forgets it next time it does a discovery ...

You do the change *on the printer*, not in Windows. Some printers have a small LED screen and navigation buttons, others have a built-in web-server, others have both. Find the "Network Identification" section and change "Host Name" and "Bonjour Service Name" to whatever you want. ("Host Name" is passed to your DHCP server, which may be configured to set up a DNS record with that name in your local domain. "Bonjour Service Name" is the mDNS name the printer will advertise itself under.)