On 08/16/10 11:50 AM, David McGuffey wrote:
> Sending my son back to college with a dual-boot laptop with Win 7 and
> CentOS 5.5. He uses Win7 to manage his iPod and SW that sometimes
> issued by a professor for a specific course...otherwise he uses CentOS
> for everything else. That setup worked well last year, except for
> printing. He has a low-end Cannon printer that is not supported in the
> Linux realm.
>
> Most of his coursework was uploaded to "Blackboard" and rarely did he
> have to print anything. On the rare occasion when he had to print a
> paper/briefing, his work-around was to build the paper/briefing in OO,
> save in Office 2003 format on a USB drive, boot to Win7, load in MS
> Office and print to the Cannon printer. I'm looking to clean that mess
> up for him before sending him back to school.
>
> Looking to buy an inexpensive printer he can use on both sides of this
> laptop. Any suggestions?
campus doesn't have all sorts of networked printers?!? I know the CSU
my son goes to has printers all over the place.
Most Brother printers have Linux support, so do most HP printers.
Brother's B&W Lasers have the cheapest per page costs of about any
printer out there, they are ugly but they just work.
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