The new KDEPrint system includes more than one highlight. Having worked in a not exactly sophisticated environment as far as printing is concerned, in previous years, have a look at some of the goodies that come with KDEPrint
KDEPrint has an “Add Printer Wizard”. The Add Printer Wizard helps you adding and configuring a new printer. Of course, you may do this manually as well.
KDEPrint helps you “discover” printers. It is able to scan the environment for available devices and queues. This works for network connections against TCP (AppSocket, aka HP® JetDirect®, or IPP) or SMB/Samba (“shared” Windows®) printers and partially for directly attached printers over parallel, serial, or USB connections.
The wizard makes the installation and handling of the drivers “a snap”. Selecting, configuring and testing should be easy as never before on any Linux®-like system.