How do I use a cups printer on a linux machine from mountain lion

Question

I have always used a linux cups printer on my network from my iMac. You could even browse the printer when looking for it. Worked fine.
Now in the updated Mountain Lion (10.8.2) is cannot see the remote printer anymore. 
If I create the printer using cups through the web interface on my iMac, which is conected to the linux server, I can create teh printer, and print a test page on this printer on the linux server! Great.
But I cannot pick the printer from a list from any application on my Mac. It is as if it does not exist (but I can print a testpage though ...).
This a a real bad change in Mountain Lion. I consider to go back to Lion (10.7).
Isn't there any way to get this working or do I realy need to downgrade to 10.7
Thanks for any hints!

Answer 1

Hi VikingOSX and Grant Bennet-Alder.
Thanks for the replies, but unfortunately, they do not work.
The solutions you suggest are all OK for 10.7.x (and I have used them before), but these steps do nothing in 10.8.2. No difference at all.
I have also tried various other suggestions I found on the web and in this forum, such as:
cupsctl BrowseRemoteProtocols=cups
cupsctl BrowseProtocols='"cups dnssd"'
They all seems to work (and I needed them before in 10.7.x), but they don't seem to help any more in 10.8.2
To illustrate the problem, I have tested the following 4 cases (in this particular order) on iMac 10.8.2 through CUPS web browser leding to teh following (copied text from CUPS web interface):
Step 1:
Description:          EPSONserver
Location:          server
Driver:                    Local Raw Printer (grayscale)
Connection:          http://192.168.1.94:631/printers/R285
Defaults:          job-sheets=none, none media=unknown
Jobs
▼ ID ▼          Name          User          Size          Pages          State          Control
EPSONserver-23           Unknown           Withheld           1k           1            processing since Sat Oct 6 14:59:57 2012 "Printing page 1, 85%"
Result step 1:
Test page: via CUPS web browser, OK. works just fine, full color and everything looks just fine
Printer in printer list: No, installed printer not available in OSX.
Can print from application: No, printer not in printer list. Cannot select printer.         
Step 2:
Description:          EPSONserver
Location:          server
Driver:                    EPSON SP R285 Series (color, 2-sided printing)
Connection:          http://192.168.1.94:631/printers/R285
Defaults:          job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=one-sided
Jobs
▼ ID ▼          Name          User          Size          Pages          State          Control
EPSONserver-24           Unknown           Withheld           1k           Unknown            stopped "Filter failed"              
Result step 2:
Test page: via CUPS web browser: NO. "Filter failed"
Printer in printer list: YES
Can print from application: NO, "Filter failed".
Step 3:
Description:          EPSONserver
Location:          server
Driver:          Generic PostScript Printer (color, 2-sided printing)
Connection:          http://192.168.1.94:631/printers/R285
Defaults:          job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=one-sided Jobs
Result step 3:
Test page: via CUPS web browser: low resolution/bad quality, black and white test page
Printer in printer list: YES, it remained in printer list when changed from step 2 to step 3.
Can print from application: Yes, but bad quality, not useful at all.
Step 4 = change settings back to step 1 :
Description:          EPSONserver
Location:          server
Driver:                    Local Raw Printer (grayscale)
Connection:          http://192.168.1.94:631/printers/R285
Defaults:          job-sheets=none, none media=unknown
Result step 4:
Test page: via CUPS web browser: OK. works just fine, full color and everything looks just fine
  Printer in printer list: it disappeared from the printer list at the moment the changes back from step 3 to step 1 were activated.
  Can print from application: No, printer not in printer list. Cannot select printer.
Overall conclusion:
The printer appears in the printer list only when it is a postscript printer or using manufacturer drivers (i.e epson drivers). It does NOT appear when using a RAW printer (but works fine printing test pages through the CUPS web interface).
10.8.2. seems to have a serious bug.
Any help? Or is downgrading to 10.7 my only solution?
THX for reading!