The recent updates have simply removed the checkbox from system-config- printer-gnome. Admittedly, you can manually add network printers by entering the IP address of the local print server (or whichever computer has the printer connected to it), but printers still do not show up automatically. Also, printer drivers now have to be locally installed (printer-driver-hpcups for instance), whereas the drivers only had to be installed on the server-side in the past. CUPS is starting to behave like Microsoft Windows' printing system. This is a big regression in usability, and the now gone ease of network printing is a lost selling point of why GNU/Linux is better than Windows.
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