Public bug reported:
Problem:
In my organization, there are about 20 printers of the same model. There is one
in each department and each floor. When I try to add the printer that is in the
next room, all printers are added, not just the one next to me. Because they
are all the same model, I do not know to which one I should print! I tried
deleting all printers, but because CUPS can see them on the network, they keep
getting automatically added. Moreover, every time I restart the machine, they
are re-added! After several restarts, I have over 100 printers added, all with
the same name.
To reproduce:
1. Have several network printers connected to your network.
2. Try to add just one of them.
3. Observe that all of them were added.
4. Delete the unneeded printers, leaving only the one you want to print to
5. Other printers come back within a few seconds.
6. You are stuck guessing to which one to print, and if you guessed wrong, you
have to go around all the building and floors searching the printers for your
printout.
My solutions:
1. Disable printer discovery completely. This way I can only add printers
manually
2. Leave all the automatically added printers, and rename the ones I don't need
to "Not this one" or "do not print here". This works for a while, until a
reboot, because it adds the printers again.
Desired solution:
Please disable automatic adding of printers by default. This should be an
option to turn on, and not a setting by default, that cannot be turned off
without also losing printer discovery.
** Affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Printers are added automatically, even after they are deleted
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