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