Re: [arch-general] Cups 1.6 printer discovery

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

"Bonjour Support; Bonjour printer sharing and discovery is now also supported using Avahi."

Also supported?

"Also supported" means "you can now use Avahi instead of Bonjour", as DNS-SD support in previous versions was limited to Mac OS X. The removal of CUPS Browsing is mentioned in <http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/06/cups-1-6-changes-ahead/>. It makes sense, since DNS-SD is more efficient, and Apple already use it for a whole ton of other programs.

I can't see it affecting network printers using IPP in any case anyway.

That's right, it only affects printer discovery. -- Mantas Mikulėnas