I have several new engineers who want to be able to configure a printer without using "printtool" (which requires X, unfortunately). However, they're chickens and don't want to vi /etc/printcap. Is there a printtool for text mode? How can you configure a printer for a server that has not had X loaded on it besides the vi /etc/printcap way?
There's no such tool at the moment (if you want to write one, you're more than welcome to do so ;) ). Assigning this to the person handling printing as a feature request.
There is a new printconf system. It is part of this system's medium term goals to be able to import settings from another system's configuration, so that one machine with X can be used to configure many without it. printtool will see no further development, as printconf is already becoming more robust.