installing a printer

Can anyone tell me how to install a printer?

It's my first week with debian and the printer installer doesn't seem to work.

What is a simple operation doesn't happen with this debian 4 etch O/S, although i have installed the same printer easily on Mandriva and on Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

There are confusing questions in the dialog box and then the installed printer refuses to work.

I have an Epson D92 printer on port usb#1 and i need to install the Epson D68 driver for it from the drop-down list, as Linux doesn't do D92 drivers.

When i try to select the D68 driver, nothing seems to happen, but there is a dialog box at the bottom of the page, which suggests installing a driver i do not need called Standard? So how can i install an Epson D68 driver with this debian software? Am I missing an instruction somewhere?

After that the dialog boxes try to get me to install an Adobe PPD file and direct me to the desktop, which is empty. Why this happens i do not know. I have never heard of a ppd file, and no other O/S asked me for one. What's going on.

Does debian printer software actually work? Or is it one of those common Linux half-finished programs? Help required.

Regards
Kureyamu