Printer discovery question

[Ballzo]

So I installed Mint 21 as my fulltime desktop solution a few months ago and one of the things I am struggling with is printer setup. I am not sure how it works exactly. In the past you had to install your printer on your os. When I went to go do that, I see that is somehow autodiscovered my wifi printer. Cool.

But now it seems most of the time when I need to print, its not showing up for me and I can't print. Then after I give up and find another method to get what I need printed, the printer shows up! Its making me nuts.

Can someone explain exactly how this works and maybe provide some direction to help ease my print frustration?

Thank you.

[Pjotr]

The blessings of driverless printing (welcome to the future!).

Unfortunately, the new driverless printing is still sometimes problematic. But you can also try the old-fashioned way, by uninstalling the "driverless" packages and then installing the driver.