Wifi Printer Installation in Fedora 39 – Step-by-step

Installing Wifi Printer

4. 5. Setting up CUPS

   Now to Share Network Printers on Local Network
   Edit the CUPS Configuration File with nano Editor:

   sudo nano /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

   And make the following Change:

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   And Ctrl+x to Save & Exit from nano Editor!

5. 6. Setting up Avahi

   So to Install Avahi Daemon
   First, run:

   sudo apt install avahi-daemon

   Next to Start it play:

   sudo service avahi start

   Again to enable it at Boot:

   sudo systemctl enable avahi-daemon

   Eventually to open in Firewall the Port it listen:

   sudo ufw allow 5353/udp

   And the Avahi Server implementation supports Printer IPP Driverless connection out-of-box.

6. 7. Adding Network Printer

   Now to Add a Network Printer
   On macOS the Printer should be automatically installed just because it Network Printing System is founded on CUPS.
   Instead, for the GNU/Linux Local Systems you basically dispose of 2 easy CUPS Server GUI Admin Interfaces:

   • CUPS Admin Web UI

   • System Config Printer Applet

   Using CUPS Admin Web UI

   To access the CUPS Web UI go to: https://localhost:631/admin.

   And then choose to ‘Add Printer’ or ‘Find Printers’:

   

   The Printer using the Bonjour service should be automatically discovered:

   

   Using System Config Printer Applet

   To Launch the System Config Printer Applet see the Add Printer Guides.
   Once you choose the “Network Printer” entry the Device should be automatically found with the IPP Protocol:

   

   Finally, on Windows see instead: How to Share Fedora Printer with Windows Guide.
   Thanks to linuxbabe.com!

7. 8. Installing AirPrint

   How to Install Apple AirPrint on Fedora

   Easy Fedora AirPrint Setup Guide

   How to Install AirPrint on Fedora GNU/Linux