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Discovery is done via the opened UDP port <code>5353</code>. Printers should get automatically detected and visible in your printer configuration client.

=== Enable auto-discovery of USB printers ===

Some printers can be automatically discovered with IPP-over-USB. To discover these printers as a locally accessible network printer/scanner, add the following to your system configuration:<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">

services.ipp-usb.enable = true;

</syntaxhighlight>

=== Adding printers ===

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The <code>model</code> string is the first column. For example, for the Samsung SCX-4300 series, set <syntaxhighlight inline lang="nix">model = "samsung/SCX-4300.ppd";</syntaxhighlight>.

=== Allowing printer administration for users ===

Users in '''wheel''' or '''lpadmin''' group can administer printers. This can be useful to allow non-admin users access to modify printers in their desktop environment settings. To allow user '''snowflake''' to administer printers you would doː<syntaxhighlight lang="nixos">

users.users.snowflake = {

isNormalUser = true;

extraGroups = [

"lpadmin"

];

...

};

</syntaxhighlight>

=== Printer sharing ===

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services.avahi = {

enable = true;

~~nssmdns~~ = true;

nssmdns4 = true; # for IPv4 (use nssmdns6 for IPv6)

openFirewall = true;

publish = {

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 Discovery is done via the opened UDP port <code>5353</code>. Printers should get automatically detected and visible in your printer configuration client.
+=== Enable auto-discovery of USB printers ===
+Some printers can be automatically discovered with IPP-over-USB. To discover these printers as a locally accessible network printer/scanner, add the following to your system configuration:<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
+services.ipp-usb.enable = true;
+</syntaxhighlight>
 === Adding printers ===
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 The <code>model</code> string is the first column. For example, for the Samsung SCX-4300 series, set <syntaxhighlight inline lang="nix">model = "samsung/SCX-4300.ppd";</syntaxhighlight>.
+=== Allowing printer administration for users ===
+Users in '''wheel''' or '''lpadmin''' group can administer printers. This can be useful to allow non-admin users access to modify printers in their desktop environment settings. To allow user '''snowflake''' to administer printers you would doː<syntaxhighlight lang="nixos">
+  users.users.snowflake = {
+    isNormalUser = true;
+    extraGroups = [
+      "lpadmin"
+    ];
+    ...
+  };
+</syntaxhighlight>
 === Printer sharing ===
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 services.avahi = {
    enable = true;
-   nssmdns = true;
+   nssmdns4 = true;        # for IPv4 (use nssmdns6 for IPv6)
    openFirewall = true;
    publish = {