I still had backlevel versions of cups in my cache so I reverted to the following and printing works again. dpkg -i cupsys_1.2.12-1_i386.deb dpkg -i cupsys-client_1.2.12-1_i386.deb dpkg -i cupsys-common_1.2.12-1_all.deb dpkg -i cupsys-bsd_1.2.12-1_i386.deb