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.
I wouldn't buy a color printer at all. I assume, every decent college has some sort of print-shop on the campus where you can make high-quality color printouts for pennies. For black&white, I'd buy a decent laser printer.
<snip> I'll second this. A couple years ago, when the inkjet I had died, I looked at other inkjets (ANY MAKE *O*T*H*E*R* than HP!!!), and then the salesguys chatted up a cute, small HP Laserjet 1018 (HP Laserjets, on the other hand, *are* still good). After the promotional discount that was literally half the price, I got it for about $68. No, that's not a mistake. It's worked very well (though that model, I had to build the driver for). Color - I get someone else to do, or do it at work.
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