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
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      10 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

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        18 minutes 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