There have been some fixes committed for building pycups against CUPS 1.6, and I've released them as part of pycups 1.9.62.
Get it at PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycups
or here: http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/pycups/
Tim. */
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