It appears the functionality I was looking for is probably available in Qimage Ultimate. I have been traveling so I have been limited to using the demo to "print" pdf files using doPDF (a program I would recommend). The most important thing to know if you are trying to do this is that the functionality in Qimage is called "Floating Text", or "Text Annotation" if you want an option with no flexibility. The next most important thing to know, and in my mind a nasty "feature" of Qimage, is that unless you know that you have to "link" the "Special Text", i.e. the symbols that refer to various metadata fields, to the current page or selected print or all prints in the queue no text will appear when you print the page.
Finally, the Template/Layout function allows you to save a page configuration, including the Floating Text so that you don't have to manually do this for each print job. Bizarrely, you recall a saved layout by going through the Custom page size functionality which I find very unintuitive.
Bottom line, the functionality I wanted appears to be available in Qimage so Kudos to Mike for providing this capability. I will be buying a copy assuming it prints to my iPF8400 the same way it is printing to a PDF file.
FWIW.
Paul