Printer companies should be careful this time around. There's more competition now among pro printer manufacturers, and those who diddle-daddle with the 10.6 driver releases may find themselves losing long-term customers ;-)
I agree 100%. I expect that driver developers start developing the new drivers with the developer builds and release them soon after or together with the official OS release. If it takes e.g. Epson (I have a 3800) months to release a 64-bit Snow Leopard driver I will reconsider my brand choice.
(I'm
very pleased with the printer hardware. However, for me Epson as a company has been a disappointment: bad German website (search doesn't work, mixed German/English, bad spelling, etc), they spam me every other day with their special offers, official Leopard drivers were late, drivers do not include decent changelogs, etc.). So I'm on the brink anyway. But this is getting off-topic...)