Printing from Mac to Linux

With Apple using (and owning) CUPS, this should be the obvious way to set up the print queue.  Once I discovered that i could surf to http://printserver:631/ and set up ipp URIs either using the Apple GUI or at the command line all was well.

The Macbook also found the printer on the Linux box when shared using samba, and seemed prepared to use the CUPS drivers on the Linux box (I could tell because I have an iPixma 3000 - see below - that is not supported out of the box by OS X Tiger).  However, I needed to add an entry to /Private/etc/hosts for the IP address of the Linux box in order for queued files to be sent across from the Macbook.