my wife's Outlook creates all sorts of problems (lockups, crashes, ...) when you bluntly cut the connection to the server.
Wow, okay, yeah. That's a pain. It's not supposed to do that. My Outlook doesn't have that problem, it just quietly disconnects in that situation. Actually, my company allows Outlook to work outside the firewall, so mine quietly disconnects, then reconnects to the external-facing exchange address. Maybe it's because something is wrong with her outlook installation (my guess would be plug-ins causing that), or maybe it's because my company's VPN is cleaner about disconnecting than Cisco's VPN is.
Of course, there's always: Exit outlook, disconnect, print, reconnect, launch outlook, but yeah, that's a pain. Especially if you want to print from outlook.

But yeah: cheap little bluetooth printer? Simplest solution.