Mailing the story:
OpenBSD: CUPS runneth, plus the NetBSD live CD, (again) why I'm doing this..
OpenBSD doesn't use the CUPS printing system by default, and while I've been successful in using Apsfilter in Damn Small Linux (but not in Debian), now that I've figured out all the quirks in CUPS and my office network-printing situation, I prefer to use CUPS to manage the many network printers at my disposal.