January 2013
Running the Novell iprint rpm through alien doesn't yield a package that works out-of-the-box on Precise. But with little work it can be made to work. And there are ways to contact the iPrint server without the client.
Novell iPrint is a printer service/server. (The download link for the Linux client is on that page, but works only if you register). "Linux client" is a bit of an optimistic nomer: it is a SuSE Linux Enterprse Deskptop client. Not even in OpenSuSE is it supported, let alone in other Linux distributions. And it isn't Open Source either.
I made and used a package like using iprint with ubuntu previously, and others have done it more recently) and used the resulting package for a long time, but in Precise, it doesn't work any more.
The rest of this article describes how to build a new iPrint package for both Ubuntu Precise and Debian Wheezy, and what can be done with an iPrint server if no iPrint package is available.