[CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?
Phil Savoie
psavoie1783 at rogers.com
Sat Dec 19 12:48:36 UTC 2009
David McGuffey wrote:
> Oldest son came back from college and wants a printer for his Dell
> laptop. I built it with CentOS 5.3 x86_64 several months ago and will
> upgrade it to 5.4
>
> The Cannon printer he now has (bought with the laptop and Vista through
> the university book store), doesn't seem to have linux drivers. I built
> the machine with Vista and CentOS in dual-boot, so he could manage his
> iTunes and use the printer under Vista. He does almost all his college
> work under CentOS. Most of his papers are submitted electronically, but
> occasionally he has to print one.
>
> What would the community recommend? His needs are simple...mostly B&W
> papers. On rare occasions he needs to print a paper with color
> photos/graphs embedded. Not looking to spend a lot, just enough to
> satisfy the requirement.
>
> DaveM
>
Hi Dave,
I have 2 lasers one BW and the other colour. The BW printer is a
Brother 5250DN (N for network) and a samsung CLP-310 also network
capable. The samsung comes with linux drivers on a CD. Both are ery
affordable and work well with linux.
Phil
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