Comment Re:Answer (Score 1) 447
Don't know why I am even bothering to write this, but I would suggest that you are just unlucky. Many (and by this I mean MANY) printers install just fine with cups and USB. LPT and network attached (and this includes the SMB/SAMBA shares that you so dislike) work just fine too. CUPS configurations do allow for browsing these printers from a list also, and in most cases, if you run a windows like distro (e.g. Fedora and Linspire) the printers are autodetected (except the network ones). Not that I think my opinion as a university sys admin holds any amount of water.
