> If I manually set the queue osx gives me the wrong driver and doesn't > even present the right one (the one automatically choose when plugging > the printer to the mac). Can you set the printer up through usb and then change the URIs in /etc/cups and however many pinter plists there are on your system to point to your Linux box? (You should stop the cups service while doing the edits to ensure that OS X doesn't go nuts.)