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Ubuntu 18.04 CUPS + Google Cloud Print

EDIT:
In 2020 Google pulled the plug on Google Cloud Print and with it much functionality for larger business, school and enterprise copiers and printers. Please see the recent blog post about one feature recently added to CUPS on Chrome "Input Tray" paper selection.

This is an alternative tutorial to Google's officially maintained Google Cloud Print Connector. This tutorial does not require Chromium to be installed on the Ubuntu computer. This could also be done in a very similar manner on Rasbian, Raspberry PI for a very low profile and low energy print server. My tutorial was for Kyocera's new printers 2019 series of TaskAlfas which have Google Cloud Printing built in but are still lacking some functionality. This setup allowed us to use the PPD's provided by Kyocera in order to get all the functions available under the More Settings -> Advanced Settings dialog.

Language Spam in Analytics

With all the talk going on about Russians hacking targeted to sway our recent presidential election it has been easy to see why there could be some validity to the claim. Hackers have found a unique way to get their message to show up in front of us. Granted - not many people actually look at analytics so I am not sure how effective this hack is but here it is anyway.

The other day I logged into Google Analytics and it said that I had traffic coming from a Language:
"Secret.google.com You are invited! Enter only with this ticket URL. Copy it. Vote for Trump!"