Hi, A number of us in the desktop team, Calum, Halton, Evan, myself and also others in the printing team have been working to improve the printing experiences on Open[Solaris].
The first thing in the plan is Presto, http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/presto We now has a prototype that allows auto-detection of local USB printer. You can download and play with it, http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/presto/Prototype The bigger picture of what presto tries to tackle is in this blog, http://blogs.sun.com/gheet/entry/solaris_printing_experience_presto All comments welcome :) -Ghee
