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.
Install cups-pdf and have pdfs created by any application that can print. Save those somewhere that can be used by both (fat partition, usb stick, send email to himself, etc) and then print in Vista. cups-pdf is available from epel repo.