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?

        • LOLseas@lemmy.zip
          1·
          18 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

          • qyron@sopuli.xyzOP
            1·
            9 hours ago

            I’ve installed the gutenprint driver but my specific printer is not listed as a supported model. Testing it as I write this but with no particular hopes…

            edit: and no, it still prints one sheet at a time, no duplex, and it botching the image printing quality