Is that printers are extremely fickle under Alt OSes. Either it works or you get nothing!

That said, network printers seem to work best. Granted, they are really expensive to keep at home, but at work they're the bomb. I have an IBM infoprint (Lexmark optra s ) at work and it set up perfectly under CUPS with no specific printer driver.

Without a printer driver, KDE seems to just ignore the error rather than crash. I guess it's a good thing! But it makes it hard to tell if your working or not. If you desperately need to print and can't get the priter working try saving to PDF. KDE seems to do really well with it and you can then goto a <blasphamy> Windows </blasphemy> computer and print off what you need--or just email it!