Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-21 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 18:42 -0800, MHR wrote: Yeah, those are the good ones. I have a Canon i560 inkjet that my son likes, and it uses the BCI-3 black and BCI-6 color cartridges. Those are terrific - you can use generic ink in them for refills and they just work and work and work (except

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-21 Thread m . roth
What would the community recommend? His needs are simple...mostly BW 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

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-20 Thread David McGuffey
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 18:40 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 06:33:18PM -0500, David McGuffey wrote: Yes, I checked that site. The printer is a USB Cannon IP1800. Chasing links I found at linuxprinting I had to go to Japan to get a driver, but it wouldn't work. Try

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 20:20 -0500, 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

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Phil Savoie
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

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Bob McConnell
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

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Phil Savoie psavoie1...@rogers.com wrote: David McGuffey wrote: What would the community recommend? His needs are simple...mostly BW papers.  On rare occasions he needs to print a paper with color photos/graphs embedded. Not looking to spend a lot, just enough

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 07:28:24AM -0800, MHR wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Phil Savoie psavoie1...@rogers.com wrote: David McGuffey wrote: What would the community recommend? His needs are simple...mostly BW papers.  On rare occasions he needs to print a paper with color

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread David McGuffey
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 10:52 +0100, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 20:20 -0500, 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

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread MHR
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 06:33:18PM -0500, David McGuffey wrote: Yes, I checked that site.  The printer is a USB Cannon IP1800. Chasing links I found at linuxprinting I had to go to Japan to get a driver, but it wouldn't

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread John R Pierce
MHR wrote: (I'd still stick with Brother or HP. If the Canon ink cartridges are the newer, electronically aware/controlled kind, I'll be surprised if you don't want to switch soon enough anyway.) I like the carts on my Canon i9900 photo printer... they are simple clear plastic carts,

[CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-18 Thread David McGuffey
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

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-18 Thread Barry Brimer
What would the community recommend? His needs are simple...mostly BW 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. Install cups-pdf and have pdfs created by any application that can

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-18 Thread John R Pierce
rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: If I'd have to buy one now, I'd look for an appropriate Brother model. They seem to have decent support for Linux. indeed, Brother BW laser printers have some of the best price oer page printed too. they work fine with aftermarket toner and drums (mine uses