Raspbian and CUPS are complete and utter crap.
So, for a few months now, I've been trying to get CUPS (print driver) working correctly under raspbian. These are the issues I'm having: CUPS sends output to the printer, but several of the first lines are missing from the printout. The source file looks just fine. CUPS has specific drivers for the printer I'm using. I've installed these, and they work. But - The fonts used for the print driver are so horrible to look at, they are completly useless. God awful to look at. CANNOT BE DESCRIBED JUST HOW GOD DAMNED UGLY THEY ARE. And the printout still misses the first few lines of the file output. I'm guessing the pre-pubecsent teen that wrote the fonts and driver had never seen a printer before. Opened a ticket with debian about the problems of missing lines. After a few e-mail exchanges, we decided that debian doesn't care and won't care in the future. Maybe he was the author of the GOD AWFUL font set. Never had this problem with Slackware..