Printer recommendation

[doctor_dialtone]

Hello - I'm looking for a new printer to replace 2 old HP deskjets that are pretty much worn out. I print mostly in B&W so I could get a low/mid cost laser printer, but for the occasional color printing job an inkjet might be good. I'm presently using Mandrake 10.0 official, and PCLinuxOS P7.

Does anyone have recommendations for printers in these categories?

Thanks -

[thread_killer]

Just about everything from HP is supported. You can certainly check out linux printing dot org (http://www.linuxprinting.org) for specifics of what works well and what doesn't.

[coolclassic]

The epson c64 is an excellent printer certainly value for money and with the drivers from turboprint even better value.

[infiniphunk]

Stay away from Canon i850, unless you wanna fork out the $40 bucks for a licence key from Turboprint; it was the only driver I could find that worked properly. Just my experience I had using it with mandrake10. BTW, if anyone has the same printer and got it working right with the drivers in mandrake10, let me know.

[EnigmaOne]

Mono: Just about any HP LaserJet (LJ2100 still going strong)
Color: The HP PhotoSmart 7550 is an excellent photo printer, as well as for general color printing.

[Pafnoutios]

I would reccomend against HP's cheaper Laserjets. I may have heard something abouth them not being PCL printers (and thus not so easily used in linux/unix), but they're also very poorly built. I'm talking about their newer 1100 and 1200 type ones. They are only 200-300 dollars and are aimed at personal desktops. They are cheaper, but I think the drums are part of the toner cartridges, so refills are more expensive. Last year I found a refurbished Laserjet4 at TigerDirect for $150, and upgraded it with some parity EDO ram from ebay. If you want to go the laser way, I would recommend finding a used/refurbished HP Laserjet online somewhere. The older ones were designed for Unix printing.