cups-control provides both the ability to print AND to configure printers so this is not normally auto-connected. However, there is the cups interface which can allow just printing but this is still a bit of a work-in-progress. We have a precedent of other browsers auto-connecting cups-control (firefox and chromium come to mind) as this is quite a standard workflow for most users. As such, +1 from me for auto-connect of cups-control for brave - can I please ask that once the cups interface is more complete that brave would move to this instead?