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It needs testing to ensure you get what you need, but I found printer support worked better on Linux for my obscure printer. If you setup a CUPS server then distros will automatically find the networked printers. SUSE/OpenSUSE also has a very good GUI printer admin with lots of automatic setup and auto driver downloads...makes it so easy.
I just have a single network printer I need to access from all of our computers. A Sharp mx-4071'if memory serves. I figured it out on Linux Mint in about 10 minutes so I'm pretty happy with that.