Printing to USB Printer on Airport Base Station

I am trying to print to my Canon iP3000 which is attached to my Airport base station. I have successfully used Bonjour for Windows to get my old windows machine to do this and my MaxOSX machine do this natively.

How do I do this in Mepis. I thought that the ZeroConfig area would do this as it appears to be the Linux implementation of the Bonjour standard but I cannot seem to get this working.

I found this on the Web for Ubuntu

http://ldopa.net/2006/07/24/linux-airport-printing/

but I cannot find how to do the equivalent in Mepis.

Any ideas ?
[br]Posted on: February 04, 2007, 04:13:42 pm_________________________________________________I have managed to get this working using a similar method to that in the reference I quoted in the last post.

In Mepis when adding a printer/printer class in settings/peripherals/printers choose the Network TCP option then fill in the IP address of the Airport Base station that the Printer is attached to and the port number that is open for the printer (on a Mac you can use the network utilities application to Port Scan the Airport Base Station IP address. In my case it was slightly different to the one stated in the article referenced above). Then it is just a case of choosing an appropriate printer driver.

I think you will need to set up as a network printer, I am not using airport but I have a USB printer in a netgear wireless print server.

Get your printer IP address and Queue name
Then go to Print System add a printer.
Click next on the welcome screen
Choose other printer type, click next
Fill in slash slash the IP address for your printer slash and the Print queue name ( case sensitive). It should look like this lpd://192.168.0.204/L1
Choose LPD/LPR printer and click next
choose your printer manufacturer and model click next
Select a driver and test it Do not click OK right away when you are told a test page was sent to he printer, it will kill the test.

the rest will be easy if the test works.