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