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But Jesus called the little children to him and said to his followers, “Let the little children come to me. Don’t stop them, because God’s kingdom belongs to people who are like these little children. The truth is, you must accept God’s kingdom like a little child accepts things, or you will never enter it.”

Luke 18:16-17 (ERV)

CUPS is the default / underlying printing system for most every Linux distribution. CUPS supports printing to networked and USB printers and allows any computer it runs on to act as a print server.


CUPS has a web browser interface. Simply type, copy and paste (or click) http://localhost:631/ in Firefox (or any web browser)

OpenPrinting CUPS


Click the Printers tab and Search

Search in Printers


Most every printer make and model is automatically recognized. Click the link to configure.

Click the link to configure


Maintain and Administrate the Printer

Apple was the previous developer of CUPS. OpenPrinting CUPS was forked in 2021.


Maintenance drop-down menu

Maintenance drop-down menu


Administration drop-down menu

Administration drop-down menu


Choose Modify Printer from the Administration drop-down menu and ensure the Share This Printer check box is checked

Modify Printer


Visit Menu > Settings > Printers and choose Settings… from the Server drop-down menu

Server > Settings...


Ensure the Publish shared printers connected to this system check box is checked

Publish shared printers connected to this system


View of Printer in Menu > Settings > Printers on another computer

View of Printer in Printers on another computer

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