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by yrro 624 days ago
I believe you'd still need cups-browsed installed, enabled & configured to accept remote printer broadcasts, _and_ have foomatic installed locally in order to get hit by this.

Modern version of cups will basically only talk to "driverless" IPP Everywhere printers, which all understand a common set of raster formats and hence have no need for printer-model specific software like foomatic-rip to be installed. They do this via mDNS, which means you don't need cups-browsed to be installed either.