I misquoted the price; it's now $89 for the 5.0 download edition. I think you can download a trial version for free:
http://www.netraverse.com/support/do...737aff478fb50c
I think it runs for a month or two for free.
Re network printers, you shold be able to get it to work. Win4lin has two networking options, winsock(the default) and vnet. I believe you have to use the vnet option for network printing and network neighborhood to work properly.
Also, which linux distro are you running?