I'm with you about LR, but if you have a steady and regular pace in shooting, I do recommend it. I starte4d with the end of LR3 version, and I forced/learned to embrace it. I will still give it the daily verbal abuse, but, there are few options, and going from PS to LR is a little bit easier than a new animal.
but as answered, unless your printer is dragging dust or lint, it shouldn't touch any other area of the paper and makes it easy to simply print on it. You can create the page size in PS, and select your images that way and just print. But if you were to use this layout regularly, and you still don't want LR, I would highly recommend Qimage, which makes all printing needs unlocked and under control. I use LR, and still use Qimage to print.