[ale] Linux printing just plain sux.

[Jim Popovitch]

Has everyone noticed how printing from Linux just plain sux?  I'm not
talking about home-user joe who only has one printer and uses lpr.  I'm
talking about trying to use multiple printers, at multiple locations,
from various business caliber applications.  For instance, today I am at
home so I would be using my home printer.  Saturday I might take my
laptop to my Dad's house and want to print something on his printer. 
Next week I might be in the office and desire to print something there,
and at night in some hotel hoping to use the shared printer in the
hotel's business center.  

All of those devices are easy to setup w/ CUPs, BUT.... hardly any
business class applications really utilize CUPs.  OpenOffice has it's
own printer integration layer (it sux), Mozilla/Firefox can only print
if you use their own xprint layer, and AbiWord core-dumps every other
print.  I find it amazingly interesting that Crossover Office (MS Office
+ Wine) prints the best, the most consistently and the easiest.  

I like Crossover but find it very lame to keep using MS Office just so
that I can print consistently and problem-free from Linux.

Am I alone here?

-Jim P.