I connect my laptop to several different networks and need to print in each of them when I am connected there. In the past (ie 12.2 and earlier) I solved this by running a cups server on the laptop and having it poll the appropriate cups servers in each network.

I was thinking that perhaps in 13.0 I could bypass having the cups server on the laptop and that KDE would "see" the various cups servers available. However this does not seem to work...

Is there anyone with similar needs that has solved this problem?
Do I really need to run a cups server on the laptop?

thanks!

cupsd would be the best solution as programs that want to print only have to deal with local cups.


i don't know the protocol of the printer servers, samba can do some qrinting with smb based protocols.

ozanbaba, thanks, but that is the solution that I used before. I am trying to see if there is some other solution. BTW, I am not interested in samba, all the printers are shared from CUPS servers.

i think you can configure kde to use remote cups server; here some docs; http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php

I used kprinter in KDE 3, but kprinter was dropped in KDE 4... what is now its equivalent?
(I am getting close to considering leaving KDE...)

and kde4 docs lacks printing side. i droped kde4 and moved to xfce with 13. it's been while since i did some printing.

xfce has a printing system: xfprint http://www.xfce.org/documentation/4.2/manuals/xfprint : because cups is a server, local and remote cups server should mak no difference. however if you use lp lpr (some place that we don't even aware of), then i don't know.