Your distro should have an option (probably buried in the documentation--in my experience, you tend to find the documentation about a day or two after you figure it out the hard way) to enable the printers on boot. Just about every distro does this, so I imagine you didn't set up your printer during the initial install. Still, fedora has some of the most prolific documentation available to Linux users, so your best bet is to google like crazy. I'd offer the slackware solution, but that would probably make it harder than it needs to be. You might want to search the fedora/redhat distribution-specific parts of LQ.
As for the multi-user argument, yes, that's the reason, but that doesn't mean there is no other option. If it bugs a relatively new user, you can bet your tail that it has bugged someone else in the past. That's the nice thing about LQ, the give and take for those little problems that aren't really problems, just a different way of looking at things. After 8+ years of using Linux, I still enjoy "newbie" help sites, because sometimes when you've used a system for a while, you don't realize that there are new, better ways of doing things.
I think everyone here, that's contributed over the years, can agree. We learn as much from the newbies as they learn from us. Actually, I think we learn more...
