Mystery printer in firefox under Ubuntu 14.04.5

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:38:17 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Thu 16 Mar 2017 at 17:32:37 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> 
> > At Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:21:26 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > cups-browsed browses Bonjour broadcasts of remote print queues and
> > > printers and sets up local queues for them. cupsd sees these queues and
> > > displays them in an app's print dialog. Stopping or uninstalling
> > > cups-browsed means remote print queues or printers will not be visible
> > > in dialogs **via the agency of cupsd**.
> > > 
> > > However, the GTK printing subsystem is capable of browsing Bonjour
> > > broadcasts all by itself, without the need for cupsd. This is what you
> > > are observing when you see the extra print queue. Examining the output
> > > of
> > > 
> > >  avahi-browse -art | less
> > > 
> > > should show the culprit. Does it?
> > 
> > Yes.  How do I stop it?
> 
> Stop avahi-daemon on the Centos server or on a workstation.
> 
> What did avahi-browse tell you about the culprit? You could post that
> snippet from the output.

Well, the Centos's avahi-daemon is not reporting the printer, but the 
avahi-daemon on Ubuntu server (and the Ubuntu workstations are).  If the avahi 
daemon is not running, will that cause other problems?

> 

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