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[Help Request] Installing Cannon drivers (sopuli.xyz)
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I have a Canon Maxify 2750.

Up until now I've been using the standar linux drivers for it but they have a serious limitation I really need to solve which is I can only print one page at a time, on one sheet of paper. Printer is capable of full duplex printing.

If been able to install the drivers before but now I'me being confronted with an unexpected _"("_ error. Nothing more, nothing less.

I run the install script and it just fails.

Can someone lend a hand on this, please?

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I get the reference and I second that one.

[–] LOLseas@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Gutenprint

https://openprinting.org/driver/gutenprint/

Which distro are you using? GNU/Linux Debian? Debian based distro?

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Debian stable

[–] LOLseas@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Hey fellow Debian Stable penguin, I'm running out of power-ups over here, wondering if you were able to install it and check? Would love to know if it worked better for you, before num-nums and nite-nite time. 22:50 local time here for me.

sudo apt-get install printer-driver-gutenprint

There's also a Gutenprint GUI installable as a Snap package, that way Debian Stable (for good reason) is timely behind Experimental (which has it).

Check if snap is installed by:

snap --version

If not installed already, you can run:

sudo apt install snapd

Then rerun the above 'version checker command' and if all went well, do:

sudo snap install core

And then get it into Active state with:

sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket

Then we make a symbolic link for classic snap support (Arch and Debian systems need this:

sudo ln -s /var/lib/snaps/snap /snap

Whew. All's in place. Now getcha the Gutenprint GUI using snap:

sudo snap install --edge gutenprint-printer-app

And once it's snapped into your Debian system, launch it from Terminal with:

gutenprint-printer-app

This is my first comment ever on Lemmy with this many copy/paste code snippets. Hoping it all formatted correctly for ya, and let us know how it goes from here! LOLseas