Re: [TCLUG:8787] Printer advice sought

[bob@math.umn.edu]

> 
> >I'm taking my old PII home machine to Coffman Saturday, and would like 
> >to replace the ancient Canon printer with another cheap b&w that is very
> >linux-friendly and low-maintenance in a low-use environment.
> >
> >Do any of you cognescenti have recommendations?  Ideally I would buy this
> >tomorrow.
>         here at work we need DOS printers, and we've had reasonably good
> luck with Canon BJ & BJC-series. i think the current model is the BJC-260.
> dunno how easy they are to find now; usually you only see the BJC-1000s &
> -1010s. (which are winblows-only) :(

Thanks Carl.

After shopping a bit, I realize that an Epson color 440 is what we need.
The SuSE support pages show that under YaST it can be configured.  Has
anyone done this using another linux, one that might appear Saturday?  :^)

Empowering a printer of color,
Chris
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