automatic printer discovery

[Michael Sweet]

J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> On 2005-06-15, Anonymous <anonymous at easysw.com> wrote:
>> It would be very nice to have printers automatically configured,
>> especially for laptops. Is this possible on windows or not?
> 
> Would this work across OSes if it were based on
> mDNS/Zeroconf/Rendevous/Bonjour (I'm not sure exactly what to call it, but
> all of these names seem to refer to the same autodiscovery protocol).
> 
> It seems like Zeroconf is pretty handy for a lot of different services, not
> just autodiscovery of printers on one's LAN.

No, the Apple Bonjour client for Windows doesn't automatically add
printers for you - you still need to select printers by hand.

Unfortunately, Windows' print service is not geared towards dynamic
printer management, so you need to have a separate service which
manages the print queues for you (something we are working on, but
are still not finished with...)

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