Can I use Apple cups as a programmable printer API?

My intent is to have a "fake printer" (Appple cups) show up on the user's desktop/Chrome browser (print settings) after it's added through a server ip/port. And it's not going to deal with any printers... I want to extract the documents that would be printed and then treat them as files to then be shared with other computers (by regular file upload/download). I know it sounds backwards but the printer as a starting point is key in this particular application. This "fake printer" has to be added by Printers & scanners say through TCP/IP/port **Update** I will answer this after having done it 2 years ago. Yes it is possible. I wrote a NodeJS API wrapper (cli calls eg. lpstat...) and pretty much this meant we could generate these fake printers on the fly and when the user installed them on their computer via an https url, they would print files and they would be shareable to whatever web application. We did have to hire a guy to modify the binary to do the multi-folder part since that wasn't working. In the end this was not worth the effort/weird niche use case since we could just drag-drop to an S3 bucket/get signed url and there's your file.