Press Ctrl + Alt + T to open the terminal
1. Modify the cupsd.conf (/etc/cups/cupsd.conf) file through add the below mentioned
contents.
Browsing Off
BrowseLocalProtocols none
2. and also add the below mentioned contents in cups-browsed.conf (/etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf)
file.
BrowseProtocols none
after rebooting the desktop there is no automatically added remote printers visible except
those which we have added manually.