I ran out room on my computer table for my printer so I moved it to my “communications closet”. This means I need a print server. The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) is the logical choice. PiMyLifeUp has a nice tutorial. I installed it on a Raspberry Pi 1 which should be adequate. Since I will use it from Windows, SAMBA is needed. The installation was straightforward. Adding my Brother HL-L2300D laser printer was the most difficult part on previous installations. Alexander Belov wrote an alternative driver that worked like a charm.

Update 10/25/25

I reinstalled CUPS and got stuck at adding the Brother printer, as usual. I asked ChatGPT for a script that automatically detected my printer and install the drivers on Debian Trixie (Raspberry Pi OS). It was successful and I was able to add my printer on CUPS with the drivers available in the standard ‘add printer’ routine.