OK, I've done those commands, and the system thinks it has a printer configured. I had assumed that the everywhere driver meant we'd be using "ipp everywhere", which I had assumed meant I would NOT need to install Brother drivers. but send a print job causes no paper to come out of the printer, and I see this in lpstat -t output: $ lpstat -t scheduler is running no system default destination device for DCP7065DN: ///dev/null DCP7065DN accepting requests since Fri 07 Jan 2022 10:46:21 AM EST printer DCP7065DN is idle. enabled since Fri 07 Jan 2022 10:46:21 AM EST File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/brlpdwrapperDCP7065DN" not available: No such file or directory DCP7065DN-6 fredex 867328 Fri 07 Jan 2022 10:46:21 AM EST which makes me guess I still need the Brother drivers. I can certainly go get them and install them (not as if I hadn't done it before on multiple systems), but I was hoping that "ipp everywhere" would work. [later] I managed to get a working printer by using the Gnome printer configuration tool. but it wasn't fun. I had to install the Brother drivers because 'everywhere' doesn't seem to work with my Brother printer (possibly Brother's fault, I dunno). the gnome printer setup tool is anything but intuitive--despite what the help system says I can't find any way to define the default printer, there's just no option there where help says it should be. when I enter the URI of the printer (ipp://192.168.2.97/ipp) it lists three choices of printers, as far as I can tell, only one of them actually prints anything. but then I shouldn't be surprised at the ugly tool, it fits right in with the rest of the Gnome desktop. Unfortunately, the MATE for Centos-8 seems to be a one-off by a 3rd party, so I can't complain to the Mate community about its lack of a printer config tool (or other tools that don't work). In fact, system-config-printer does seem to exist, but (1) it isn't found in any menu I can find, anywhere, but on disk, if one searches with some diligence, and (2) when I attempt to invoke it "python36 gui.py" it just errors out on me. since I don't know any more about python than it takes to type that command, I don't know how to fix it. I'm guessing it has never been ported to Python 3.x. I'd like to stay with CentOS or other RH-derived distro, but not if I'm forced to use Gnome desktop. Thanks for all the various replies you all sent me! Fred On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 10:21 AM Fred <fred.fredex at gmail.com> wrote: > John, it is a Brother DCP7065DN, on the hardwired network and visible to > all the computers here. > > Actually, I just installed Mate (can't stand that Gnome-thing) but neither > it nor Gnome shows any printer config utilities. > > Barry, I'll check into lpadmin. Still, I'd think there would be something > actually visible in one of the menus, and as far as I can see there isn't. > > Fred > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 2:34 AM John Call <johnsimcall at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Fred, can you share a little bit more information? For example, are you >> using the default Gnome desktop environment? What kind of printer do you >> have? How is it connected to C8S (USB, Wi-Fi, Ethernet...?) >> >> I use Gnome, and it's been a long time since I had to poke around with >> CUPS. My Brother printer (MFC-9340CDW) is pretty old these days, but still >> works after I download and install the "Driver Install Tool" RPM from the >> brother.com website... >> >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 9:16 PM Fred <fred.fredex at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > OK, I give up. How do I configure a printer on Centos 8 Stream? I can't >> > find any tools for doing that. >> > >> > further, there doesn't seem to be a cups executable (which should allow >> > setting up a printer) though there ARE a bunch of cups packages >> installed. >> > >> > Anyone got any clues for me? >> > >> > Thanks in advance! >> > >> > Fred >> > _______________________________________________ >> > CentOS mailing list >> > CentOS at centos.org >> > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >