sudo snap remove gutenprint-printer-app

Then

sudo apt purge snapd

Sorry I couldn’t be the fixer here. No disrespect meant, just trying to help. LOLseas

From screenshots of having the GUI installed (It’s looking like some sort of Web Config or Printer Settings pave that has toggles for 2-Sided/Duplex printer, as well as playing with the quality of the print jobs. Maybe I was misunderstanding thr purpose of the gutenprint-printer-app

Give it a go, we’re curious, and I’m invested in you overcoming this silly printer hoops-and-loops getting just the basic features ironed out.

Do it. Do it now.

I found it listed under gimp-print.sourceforge.io/p_Supported_Printers.php listed as Experimental. Gutenprint is originally Gimp-Print.

It’s labelled as “Canon MAXIFY MB2750” on that page. In the terminal, what’s the output of:

gutenprint-printer-app devices

?

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

Name and shame the printer company. That’s infuriating to read.

Gutenprint

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

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

Richard Stallman wept.

Oh man. Second job ever, dipping my toes into IT as a PC tech at an office supplies retail store.

Freshly minted CompTIA A+ hardware/software certification under my belt. Have a customer debate me on me declaring that SDRAM is and always will be faster than DRAM memory. Customer walked out after complaining to my manager. Got chewed out by manager, but kept job, though I was noticeably meeker with future interactions. Retail sucks.

More than 20 years later, I’m still right.