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Is there any consensus on which method I should use to enable printing 
on my 6.1 desktop?  The printer in question is an old HP Deskjet 500.  I 
recall there being issues regarding cups in the not too distant past, 
and am wondering if I should look at something else.  I'm running KDE 
(and sometimes Gnome), and looking to be able to print from Firefox, 
opera-linux, bluefish & openoffice.  I would also like to set it up to 
be able to be a network share via Samba. Any advice would be greatly 
appreciated.

Best regards,
Greg Groth