Why is it so difficult to install a printer in OS X ML?

Just bought a printer from the Apple Store that was identified as Mountain Lion compatible. All happy when it arrived. All sad and frustrated trying to install it and get it to work. Two errors: 1) unable to connect to the printer (USB or WiFi) due to an error 2) ready to print - 'Filter' failed.
The crazy thing is that I can print just fine without manually loading anything from 2 different ipads, 4 different iphones and a macbook pro (running OS X Lion). Seems to be a ML thing.
IF THERE IS ANY APPLE "GENIUSES" LURKING THIS POST, PLEASE HELP BEFORE I REGRESS BACK TO LION.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Select "/var/log/cups/error_log" from the file list in the Console window. Post the messages from the time of the last printing attempt.
Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into a message.

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