[plug] Printer question

[Tim Bowden]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 10:18 +0800, Martin De'Pannone wrote:
> Hi all.  Hope you can help.
> 
> Need to buy a new printer and want to be able to use it with Linux 
> (running Ubuntu on my laptop).  My wife's laptop runs XP :-(
> 
> I would want to network the printer off my file server (Windows Server 
> 2000) - however, this box is likely to be changed over to Linux as well 
> shortly (like my web/email server) so need to buy with the future in mind.
> 
> Can any of you recommend a printer that will work with XP and Linux - 
> would prefer one that comes with Linux drivers as well ad XP drivers.

Brother HL 2040 (cheap laser printer).  Works great.  Plug & play with
ubuntu for me...

> 
> Cheers in advance.
> 
>