diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/printing/cupsd.nix b/nixos/modules/services/printing/cupsd.nix
index 9e0f8a227e9..fab1318f5b9 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/printing/cupsd.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/printing/cupsd.nix
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ in
       };
 
     services.printing.drivers =
-      [ pkgs.cups pkgs.cups-filters pkgs.ghostscript additionalBackends
+      [ pkgs.cups pkgs.ghostscript additionalBackends
         pkgs.perl pkgs.coreutils pkgs.gnused pkgs.bc pkgs.gawk pkgs.gnugrep
       ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/cups-filters/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/cups-filters/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 0357b875dc7..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/cups-filters/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, cups, libjpeg, ghostscript
-, dejavu_fonts, libpng, libtiff, glib, lcms, freetype, fontconfig, ijs, poppler
-, zlib, qpdf, dbus }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "cups-filters-1.0.61";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.openprinting.org/download/cups-filters/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0mri36qih4vniycbga8aczmdf0qkiwyyi5hv8x9mg2f6a9wj8ch9";
-  };
-
-  configureFlags = [ "--with-test-font-path=${dejavu_fonts}/share/fonts/truetype/DejaVuSans.ttf"
-                     "--with-cups-domainsocket=/var/run/cups/cups.sock"
-                     "--with-rcdir=no"
-                   ];
-
-  buildInputs = [ ghostscript cups libjpeg libpng libtiff glib lcms freetype fontconfig
-                  poppler zlib ijs qpdf dbus
-                ];
-
-  patches = [ ./fix-cups-path.patch ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig autoreconfHook ];
-
-  doCheck = true;
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    homepage = http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/cups-filters;
-    description = "Backends, filters, and other software that was once part of the core CUPS distribution";
-    license = "cups-filters";
-    maintainers = maintainers.abbradar;
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/cups-filters/fix-cups-path.patch b/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/cups-filters/fix-cups-path.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e668322061..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/cups-filters/fix-cups-path.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-diff -ru3 cups-filters-1.0.61-old/configure.ac cups-filters-1.0.61/configure.ac
---- cups-filters-1.0.61-old/configure.ac	2014-11-04 23:48:35.185515564 +0300
-+++ cups-filters-1.0.61/configure.ac	2014-11-05 00:01:57.132038500 +0300
-@@ -92,11 +92,11 @@
- AC_SUBST(CUPS_CFLAGS)
- AC_SUBST(CUPS_LIBS)
- 
--CUPS_DATADIR="`$CUPSCONFIG --datadir`"
-+CUPS_DATADIR="$out/share/cups"
- AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(CUPS_DATADIR, "$CUPS_DATADIR", [CUPS datadir])
- AC_SUBST(CUPS_DATADIR)
- 
--CUPS_SERVERROOT="`$CUPSCONFIG --serverroot`"
-+CUPS_SERVERROOT="$out/etc/cups"
- AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(CUPS_SERVERROOT, "$CUPS_SERVERROOT", [CUPS serverroot])
- AC_SUBST(CUPS_SERVERROOT)
- 
-@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
- AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(CUPS_FONTPATH, "$CUPS_FONTPATH", [Path to CUPS fonts dir])
- AC_SUBST(CUPS_FONTPATH)
- 
--CUPS_SERVERBIN="`$CUPSCONFIG --serverbin`"
-+CUPS_SERVERBIN="$out/lib/cups"
- AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(CUPS_SERVERBIN, "$CUPS_SERVERBIN", [Path to CUPS binaries dir])
- AC_SUBST(CUPS_SERVERBIN)
- 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 109ce0f015b..6fb9591a40a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12277,7 +12277,6 @@ let
 
   cups = callPackage ../misc/cups { libusb = libusb1; };
 
-  cups-filters = callPackage ../misc/cups/drivers/cups-filters { };
 
   crashplan = callPackage ../applications/backup/crashplan { };