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Cups LPD Enabling on Snow Leopard (10.6)

Last Updated: 07 August 2019
By default Snow Leopard has LPD disabled. To turn it on for sharing printers via LPR/LPD do the following in Terminal:

cupsctl 'BrowseLocalProtocols="cups dnssd lpd"

(Found in CUPS Online Help, under Getting Started > Printer Sharing)
Cups, Printing, Mac, Apple, macOS (OSX)
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