On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Johnny C. Lam wrote:

> I have not personally used Foomatic with anything other than CUPS (which I do
> highly recommend for the JFW factor), but according to its documentation,
> Foomatic should still be usable by folks who prefer lpr/lpd or LPRng.

Definitely.

I often use it to print without even using a spooler. In my journal but 
not many details: 
http://www.reedmedia.net/~reed/journal/2007/20070913.html