Can't set up printing from Mac OS X (10.5.7) to an HP PSC 2410 shared from PC running Ubuntu 9.10

Can't set up printing from Mac OS X (10.5.7) to an HP PSC 2410 shared from PC running Ubuntu 9.10 I've got an HP PSC 2410 printer shared from a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 installation. I'm able to send documents to this printer over the network from another Ubuntu machine. But so far, I haven't been able to find a setup where I can send documents to that printer from a MacBook running 10.5.7.
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"To follow up, I got a pointer to an answer in another forum:

It turns out that Mac OS X 10.5
doesn't listen by default to CUPS
broadcasts that advertise network
printers running on other CUPS
servers. So, on a terminal session at
the Mac, just type

cupsctl BrowseProtocols='""cups dnssd""'

and then all printers will show up on
the Add Printers dialog.

(From http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=677238#3.)

I did this on the Macs on question and it worked like a charm: I typed in the cupsctl command, pulled up the Add Printers dialog, switched from IP to Default, and there it was. Mac OS X figured out the driver, and everything went smoothly.

There's also some indication that it might be possible to use Bonjour on Ubuntu to make the CUPS-shared stuff visible, but I'm not clear on the details."