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Kubuntu is great for out of the box printer detection, as are Fedora and Mint, in my experience.
Some distros may force you through some obstacles though, and in my experience (opensuse) you may have to allow mdns/ipp protocols in your firewall rules for local device discovery and communication.
Apart from that I'd argue that setting up a modern printer on Linux is pretty much plug n play nowadays, since most should support driverless printing at this point.