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The proprietary drivers for my printer are 1GB large.
Printing turns a document into a postscript file and sends that to the printer, what the fuck does it need 1GB of data for that??
Name and shame the printer company. That's infuriating to read.
Those are the Windows drivers for a Kyocera printer-scanner-combo.
Under Linux it runs out of the box with the drivers included in CUPS.
"Fuck Yooouuu Kyocera, and Fuck Yoooouuuu Windoze!!!" -Emporer Akihito, South Park "Whale Wars" reference
I get the reference and I second that one.
Gutenprint
https://openprinting.org/driver/gutenprint/
Which distro are you using? GNU/Linux Debian? Debian based distro?
Debian stable
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