spool-less and server-less printing

[Jeremy C. Reed]

What do you use for your workstation printing?

I am looking for suggestions and experiences with using printing software 
without any daemon running and not needing to queue the print jobs. (It is 
okay if remote is a server -- I am just talking about a workstation.)

I recently read that foomatic-rip can be used as a stand-alone lpr 
alternative. It uses PPD files, a render like ghostscript, and is said to 
work with all known spoolers.

Can lprng or cups be used without having a daemon running? (Like for 
printing directly to an attached parallel port printer.)


 Jeremy C. Reed