Comment 6 for bug 1760593

> There was a lot of output which I believe was not relevant,
> thus I filtered the output. If I am wrong, tell me what I
> should be looking for.

You believed correctly. We were only after finding out whether the laptop saw the Bonjour broadcasts.

> Could this be the problem?

Definitely. (Famous last words :) )

> But how would a normal average, non technical user have this
> file setup properly? What official, user friendly tool (ideally
> GUI) could be use to set things correctly?

There is never any need for such a user to touch this file or even know it exists. On Debian it comes in the libsane-hpaio package and just gets installed. The HPLIP team keep it up-to-date for each release. Here I have libsane-hpaio 3.16.11 and it has the officejet_pro_6970 as an entry. Only you would know (or be able to guess) why your desktop and laptop versions differ.

Copying the desktop file over to the laptop should fix your problem. Please let us know if it does.

Cheers,

Brian.