Talk:CUPS/Troubleshooting

lpadmin -p printer -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops

This suggestion was flagged as out of date ("bug was reported in 2012") but I can confirm that today, in mid 2024, I had to use this workaround with my old HP Laserjet 1300 printer, which is still going strong. BlackberryStyx (talk) 03:15, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Making adding CUPS shared printers work in Windows

Just though I should mention what I had to go through to get adding CUPS-shared printers in Windows working - that is, what you have to do to make just pressing the "Add" button in the new control panel, and not doing it manually in the old printer adding wizard. In short, you have to recreate what CUPS publishes on avahi-daemon (using avahi-browse --all --resolve --terminate to see what CUPS exports, using it to recreate a .service file you put in /etc/avahi/services), but remove the TLS=1.2 txtrecord, and change every mention of https to http. And then publish this through avahi yourself, while you turn of automatic publishing in CUPS by setting Browsing to No in cupsd.conf: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/524#issuecomment-2758647665 —This unsigned comment is by Mads (talk) 08:42, 28 March 2025 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!