Thanks for all the input. I ended up buying a Canon Pixma MP240. While
I wasn't shopping for another printer, I did not have colour, and the
copy feature of the multifunction will be useful.

I was a little nervous at first since I bought it on impulse, but
surprisingly Canon does provide drivers for Linux. Well, at least in
Europe. I did, however, run into some trouble with them because they
only provide i386 binaries, though the source is included. Still, I
had trouble building x86_64 packages for Jaunty. But following along a
Ubuntu forum article, I was able to get the scanner working with SANE
by compiling and installing the nightly CVS back-ends, and the i386
printer drivers from Canon worked as is when I installed them with
--force-all.


Chris
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