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Originally Posted by JustADecoy
GhostScript strikes me as a heavyweight solution (though I'm not sure if we have any better way to output a PDF file in the Open Source world) -- how large is the installation? Does it seem especially slow?
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Ghostscript is using ~7 MB in total, the binary itself is at 3.8 MB (stripped). It's a bit slower than on a PC, but not remarkably. Rendering this thread for example takes 6.5 sec, the printable version takes only 4 sec.
I still have some problems due to missing fonts, so the disk usage might still go up...
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The biggest issue I have with Samba is the fact that I put my iLiad and my laptop on many different networks and sometimes they can't be on the same one. Frankly, this makes Wi-Fi a terrible option for me, though I hope Ad Hoc networking+Zeroconf might make things easier. If I'm reading things correctly, you have to connect to the shared 'printer' by its IP address -- is that correct?
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Yes, thats correct. Samba is currently built without the nmbd service, so you have to address samba by its IP.
I also did some WLAN Ad-Hoc tests which were positive. The new busybox already includes a DHCP server (udhcpd), so all you have to do is set up an ad-hoc network, start the dhcp server and give clients an IP in a private address space.
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Even better would be a tiny Bluetooth adapter and a software stack to make the iLiad look like a printer. (Though I'm more likely to send a Mac OS X-generated PDF file via Bluetooth file exchange using Automator, because that's dead easy.) Even better than that would be a pop-up window on the iLiad once the file is received to let me put the file where I want it (and give it a new title, etc.)
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Moving files around on the iLiad is still a big issue IMO. At the moment a printed document shows up in the "download history". Bluetooth would be great, but I think it drains your battery at least as much as WiFi does...
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Enough about my crazy ideas and complete lack of time to work on them. This is really cool news, and I'm looking forward to poking at the code when you post it.  Once upon a time, I remember Windows could auto-download a driver for a properly configured printer via Samba -- I think it's time to figure out how that works. 
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From what I've cross-read so far, all you have to do is to put the driver files onto a corresponding Samba share on the server, but I still have to figure that out.