Okay, my printing situation is getting weirder. In desparation I tried using printtool, and used it to set up my printer exactly the same way I had set it up under Mandrake before switching to Debian. I was excited when printtool successfully printed when I tried its option for printing a postscript page to test.
Unfortunately, aside from the test in printtool, the printer still doesn't seem to work normally; I still can't print postscript files in gv or with lpr, and I still can't print from some programs like kword. -- Tom "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." -Epictetus