Comment 17 for bug 139335

On a class B network, setting up a printer with Gnome is very cumbersome. In the time I was waiting for scanning, I managed to do the following:

sudo apt-get install kdeprint

kprinter

Click magic wand icon, set up new printer.

Kde's printing dialogs are much more intuitive, much faster, and do offer scanning as an option. The printer will still list and be configurable in gnome once you have it set up.

As I'm typing this, the scanning dialog is still floating above Firefox, and I'm going to xkill the app.

I'm not bashing gnome's efforts, (I prefer gnome at work) but if you need a printer set up in a timely fashion in a large business, this is a great alternative.

-Tres