>> My laptop has one to two handful of these, depending on what I'm >> currently playing with. > I taking a class at the local library; my laptop has avahi and cups > ports open .. which I'm not thrilled about but I like the zero-conf > printing ability.
Why do you need cups ports open to print? I understand you need the cups port to be open on the side of the printer (or print-server), but not on the side of the machine that sends the print job. Am I missing something? Stefan