Seems CUPS now comes with Zeroconf/Bonjour network printer browsing support included in the upstream tarball (http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L479). I haven’t tried this myself, but presumably CUPS should work on Avahi (http://avahi.org/) as well, since we ship a – these days nearly perfect – Bonjour compatibility library.

In Fedora Rawhide this functionality (http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/cups/cups-avahi.patch?rev=1.1&view=auto) seems to be enabled already. Other distibutions, please follow!

Seems at least one good thing came from the recent Apple buyout of CUPS/Easy Software Products (http://lwn.net/Articles/242020/): I can now remove one item from my TODO list which has been there for a long time already.