diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/printing/cupsd.nix b/nixos/modules/services/printing/cupsd.nix
index 4b758608cb64..edbba7e0a834 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/printing/cupsd.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/printing/cupsd.nix
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ in
       { description = "CUPS Printing Daemon";
 
         wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-        after = [ "network-interfaces.target" ];
+        wants = [ "network.target" ];
+        after = [ "network.target" ];
 
         path = [ cups ];
 
@@ -145,7 +146,7 @@ in
     services.printing.drivers =
       [ pkgs.cups pkgs.cups_pdf_filter pkgs.ghostscript additionalBackends
         pkgs.perl pkgs.coreutils pkgs.gnused pkgs.bc pkgs.gawk pkgs.gnugrep
-	];
+      ];
 
     services.printing.cupsdConf =
       ''
diff --git a/nixos/tests/printing.nix b/nixos/tests/printing.nix
index 9b96e3d7b20c..9ef28dcfcd4d 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/printing.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/printing.nix
@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@ import ./make-test.nix ({pkgs, ... }: {
 
       # Make sure that cups is up on both sides.
       $server->waitForUnit("cupsd.service");
-      $server->waitForUnit("network.target");
       $client->waitForUnit("cupsd.service");
-      $client->waitForUnit("network.target");
       $client->succeed("lpstat -r") =~ /scheduler is running/ or die;
       $client->succeed("lpstat -H") =~ "/var/run/cups/cups.sock" or die;
       $client->succeed("curl --fail http://localhost:631/");