diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/printing/cupsd.nix b/nixos/modules/services/printing/cupsd.nix
index fab1318f5b9e..9e0f8a227e9f 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.ghostscript additionalBackends
+      [ pkgs.cups pkgs.cups-filters 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
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0357b875dc71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/cups-filters/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ 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
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6e6683220611
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/cups/drivers/cups-filters/fix-cups-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+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 8128620b2e21..c6548b1b73f2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12314,6 +12314,7 @@ let
 
   cups = callPackage ../misc/cups { libusb = libusb1; };
 
+  cups-filters = callPackage ../misc/cups/drivers/cups-filters { };
 
   crashplan = callPackage ../applications/backup/crashplan { };