diff --git a/system/options.nix b/system/options.nix
index 2dfbca44e7e..76aebb102d0 100644
--- a/system/options.nix
+++ b/system/options.nix
@@ -752,6 +752,15 @@
   }
 
   
+  {
+    name = ["services" "printing" "enable"];
+    default = false;
+    description = "
+      Whether to enable printing support through the CUPS daemon.
+    ";
+  }
+
+  
   {
     name = ["installer" "nixpkgsURL"];
     default = "";
diff --git a/upstart-jobs/cupsd.nix b/upstart-jobs/cupsd.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1b561bec5e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/upstart-jobs/cupsd.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+{ writeText, cups
+}:
+
+let
+
+  logDir = "/var/log/cups";
+
+  cupsdConfig = writeText "cupsd.conf" "
+    LogLevel info
+
+    SystemGroup root
+
+    Listen localhost:631
+    Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
+
+    ServerRoot ${cups}/etc/cups
+
+    AccessLog ${logDir}/access_log
+    ErrorLog ${logDir}/access_log
+    PageLog ${logDir}/page_log
+
+    TempDir /tmp
+
+    Browsing On
+    BrowseOrder allow,deny
+    BrowseAllow @LOCAL
+
+    DefaultAuthType Basic
+
+    <Location />
+      Order allow,deny
+      Allow localhost
+    </Location>
+    
+    <Location /admin>
+      Order allow,deny
+      Allow localhost
+    </Location>
+    
+    <Location /admin/conf>
+      AuthType Basic
+      Require user @SYSTEM
+      Order allow,deny
+      Allow localhost
+    </Location>
+
+    <Policy default>
+      <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job>
+        Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
+        Order deny,allow
+      </Limit>
+
+      <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Set-Printer-Attributes Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Add-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs CUPS-Set-Default>
+        AuthType Basic
+        Require user @SYSTEM
+        Order deny,allow
+      </Limit>
+
+      <Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
+        Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
+        Order deny,allow
+      </Limit>
+
+      <Limit All>
+        Order deny,allow
+      </Limit>
+    </Policy>
+  ";
+
+in
+
+{
+  name = "cupsd";
+
+  extraPath = [
+    cups
+  ];
+  
+  job = "
+description \"CUPS daemon\"
+
+start on network-interfaces/started
+stop on network-interfaces/stop
+
+start script
+    mkdir -m 0755 -p ${logDir}
+    mkdir -m 0700 -p /var/cache/cups
+    mkdir -m 0700 -p /var/spool/cups
+end script
+    
+respawn ${cups}/sbin/cupsd -c ${cupsdConfig} -F
+  ";
+  
+}
diff --git a/upstart-jobs/default.nix b/upstart-jobs/default.nix
index c677cc3edd8..4056e27e9ec 100644
--- a/upstart-jobs/default.nix
+++ b/upstart-jobs/default.nix
@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ import ../upstart-jobs/gather.nix {
       inherit (pkgs) glibc pwdutils;
     })
 
+  # CUPS (printing) daemon.
+  ++ optional ["services" "printing" "enable"]
+    (import ../upstart-jobs/cupsd.nix {
+      inherit (pkgs) writeText cups;
+    })
+
   # ALSA sound support.
   ++ optional ["sound" "enable"]
     (import ../upstart-jobs/alsa.nix {