Select the checkbox for Share This Printer and press Continue until done. Then, press Continue until the screen showing a option for Sharing appears. When viewing the printer, press the Administration dropdown, and select Modify Printer Press the Printers tab on the top to list your installed printers, and press the PDF printer. To enable printer sharing, open up a web-browser on your system and navigate to If prompted for credentials, enter the username and password you use for logging into the computer. pdf’s under /var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS. By default, everything you print will end up as. This will give you a printer named “PDF” on your system. To install CUPS-PDF: sudo apt install cups-pdf This is not required if you want to use CUPS to print on a actual printer. The following are some notes on how I got my PDF even though the Windows application thought it was printing on a regular printer CUPSįirst step is to configure CUPS to allow remote connections $ cupsctl -remote-any In my scenario I had no printer available at the time either, which is why I wanted a PDF instead. My host OS was Ubuntu Linux, and while you could attempt to use USB passthrough for the printer, often there are not any drivers for Windows XP. I recently got into the position where I needed to get something printed from a Windows XP application which ran in Virtualbox.
