Thanks, Joost,

Now that you mention it, I do remember using Send To Word before but it didn't occur to me this time - can't imagine why, it's so obvious - why on earth do they provide a format exclusively for Word?

I didn't actually manually copy every notes page - I looked at the easy-to-understand object model to do this:
[VBA]For Each Slide In ActivePresentation.Slides
Set rngNotes = docNotes.Content
rngNotes.InsertAfter Slide.NotesPage.Shapes(2).TextFrame.TextRange.Text
rngNotes.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
rngNotes.InsertBreak wdPageBreak
Next[/VBA]Glad I didn't miss the obvious though

I'll work on automating the printer side of it and submit it.