I'm really not that surprised, printing is one of the most diabolical
things in computing.  Virtually every printer is different.  Even
printers by the same manufacturer.  Mostly made to work on the current
version of Windows, with a specialist driver that may not ever be
updated (no bug fixes, and mayn't work on your next OS release), to
deal with the manufacturing shortcomings in the printer, as well as the
different way each model works.  You're virtually expected to throw it
away and buy a new one when you cannot use your existing printer with
whatever new computer system you're using.

I've long since come to the conclusions that old office printers are
the best, they're built like a tank and have large capacity ink/toner
and paper hoppers.  And, if you print from more than one device, you
want a printer that connects directly to your network.  It's no-longer
dependent on a server computer running all the time, and each thing
that wants to print only needs to be problem-solved regarding itself
and the printer.

In the past, I found it best to have a server handle all the printing
needs for my network.  Everything that wanted to print was a Fedora
installation bar one Windows 2000 PC (and it could happily use IPP with
my CUPS server).

But, trying to do printing via SMB sharing just adds a whole extra load
of headaches.  You have a third networking protocol to deal with, too,
plus all the Windows PCs either wanting to find the driver through a
SMB share (which you have to figure out), or needing individual drivers
manually installed on each Windows PC.
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