Samba printing --- why bother

[malcolm]

Printing from a Windoze box to a linux printer has alway been incredibly slow 
via Samba.

After I purchased a new printer it was so slow that most Window clients gave 
up.

The solution is to avoid Samba alltogether and set up the printer on Windows 
as an internet printer, i.e.:

http://mylinux:631/printers/raw.

Then printing is subjectively as fast remote as it is local (instead of maybe 
200 - 300 times slower via Samba).

My question: since I cannot be the only one to encounter such behaviour 
(google verifies that I am not alone), why don't the samba developers either 
fix this bug, or disable printing over samba and recommend the internet 
solution?

Malcolm Agnew