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FreeBSD, CUPS and iPad printing

For the longest time, I couldn’t get CUPS configured on my FreeBSD server successfully. Between CUPS access rules, foomatic drivers and avahi announcements, I had terrible trouble making heads or tails of the nondescript error messages I was getting.

Spurned on by the arrival of an iPad, I finally sat down and worked through configuring CUPS and avahi. So I don’t have to go through all the fiddling again, here’s a recipe of what I did.