Isn't there an alternative?

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For 15 years, CUPS has made me want to kill myself, time and again.  Isn't there an alternative?

Lately it simply will not print to my Xerox Phaser 8860 network printer INTERMITTENTLY.  Usually fails when I have an emergency, like right now.

 I can ping the printer from anywhere, and it is showing online and Idle in the Cups webpage.  But I send a job to it and it never sees it.  Never shows up in jobs and the printer never goes busy.

The only thing in the logs is in the err.log:
[code]W [26/Feb/2013:12:47:38 -0800] failed to CreateProfile: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'phaser-Gray..' already exists
W [26/Feb/2013:12:47:38 -0800] failed to CreateProfile: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'phaser-RGB..' already exists
W [26/Feb/2013:12:47:38 -0800] failed to CreateDevice: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id 'cups-phaser' already exists
E [26/Feb/2013:12:47:38 -0800] Unable to open listen socket for address [v1.::1]:631 - Address family not supported by protocol.[/code]

Well I did an in-depth file search for phaser-RGB in /etc and /home/{user} and it does not exist.  I am at my wit's end.

What could possibly be wrong?