Comment 5 for bug 1341562

I am affected by this too. The interesting and frustrating thing is, though, that I sometimes I do get the print queue icon but I haven't been able to work out what causes it to work or not to work.

Incidentally, if you open System Settings -> Printers and then lock the icon in the launcher before closing it again, the print queue is only a few clicks away; you open the printers dialogue (click on the icon now in the launcher) then either open Printer -> View Print Queue or use the shortcut ctrl-F. A bug-fix would be better, but at least one can work round it for the time being.