PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

[Boyd Adamson]

James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> writes:
> Norm Jacobs writes:
>> James Carlson wrote:
>> > What about Avahi?
>> >   
>> Most of the printers that I have come across don't support mDNS.  A
>> couple of the newer ones that I have tested with do.  I am looking at
>> incorporating it as a discovery method.  mDNS support should
>> introduce a relatively small incremental change to this case to
>> import the necessary interfaces and introduce an interface to control
>> the discovery method.
>
> That seems reasonable.  I was just surprised at the absence of any
> mention, as this was (at one point) the direction we were going for
> network discovery.

I believe it's the way Apple are going too, and I think they're working
on convincing printer manufacturers to use more mDNS. It would be nice
to piggy-back on that work.

Boyd