[opensuse] Printer Recommendation?

Hi Folks,

After completing a rather arduous install* of 11.0 on a
new HP m9340f desktop, I'm left with a printer issue.
I purchased a nice Canon MX7600 multi-function printer
knowing full well I'd probably have problems. I figured
I'd at least be able to print to it, but no! This Canon
is as proprietary as they come. This is ok, I'm able to
use it via VirtualBox and Win-XP and the stand-alone fax
and copier are valuable. So I'll keep the printer.

But this leaves me still needing a printer I can use directly
from 11.0 with cups. Can anyone recommend a fairly good
color printer that will work well with cups? A network
interface is also desirable.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Lew

* footnote:

My install problems were interesting indeed. First, I ran
into the reiserfs freeze-up problem. I've made a few other
11.0 reiserfs installs without issue, but this one bit me
in the nether regions. Must be something with the mobo or
cpu (Core 2 quad) configuration. The install would finish,
then freeze up after a variable amount of time. Then, the
on-board NIC (Realtek) was unreliable. At times it wouldn't
be seen by the install process, and when it did install it
would spin off billions of RX overrun and some read errors.
Readtek had an updated driver that I compiled in, but still
no joy. This wasn't a SuSE problem, Knoppix showed the same
symptoms. The fix for the NIC was to install a D-Link PCI-e x1
NIC and to ditch reiserfs in favor of ext3.
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