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		e12e on Aug 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat Well, seems to be missing that for many, the point of CUPS is to take a regular, non-network enabled printer (parallel port, USB etc) and turn it into a networked printer... https://www.freedomit.co.nz/kb-centos/76-using-port-9100-to-...

deaddodo on Aug 4, 2021 [–]

That's definitely not true. That is a side-effect of CUPS, but CUPS exists very much in the same realm as PulseAudio and other service-enabling frameworks around hardware. It allows software/clients to interface with printers in a seamless and safe manner.

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