Phil Savoie wrote:
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.
HP has several consumer level laser printers available, most of them with Postscript built in. I have a CP1518ni which I got at Sam's Club for US$289. No problems using it from Ubuntu, Slackware, Fedora or CentOS. Even with the 1/3 capacity toner cartridges it came with, it cost less than just the ink jet cartridges would have before we had to buy another set.
Bob McConnell N2SPP