I have a network of Macs. One of the Macs, an iMac G3, acts as a print server for three printers... a B&W laser, a color laser, and a color inkjet. I start with just those three printers in my Printer Setup list... and just those three appear in the menu in the Print dialog. All works great.
But over time, printers get auto-added to the list of printers. After a couple weeks, I'll have dozens in the list. I delete all the extra ones away, and they come back again over time. Printing becomes flaky when they are present... in part because people end up choosing the auto-added printers.
The auto-added printers are easy to identify... the Queue Name is "mcx_#" where # starts with 0, and increments for each additional that's added.
Anyone know how to stop this behavior?
Anyone know why this is happening?
Anyone know under what conditions a printer would get auto-added to a printer list?
Is it possible that old printer definitions were cached in people's accounts, and then when they print to them, it sends the print job to the non-existent account, and then the printer server "kindly" creates the corresponding printer, resulting over time in a long list.
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