Crashing a printer sounds strange to me because linux has always had strong printer support. It became the default printer server software in a lot of large companies (Cisco where I was an intern) and has supported printers that were orphaned by windows. In fact on some printers, there is more than one driver available, and some of them work better than others. There are some proprietary printers that don't have good support from linux and that might be the issue here.