I had this when it was using a cups generic driver on a cannon I think printer. Switching to the manufacturers drivers fixed the issue.
Thanks. I’ll let him know. I think he has either a Canon or Lexmark.
Others are saying to switch to the specific driver for your printer. If you do not want to go proprietary you could try and see if your printer is supported by the splix driver
Thanks. I gave him this suggestion and the one from others about using the manufacturer’s proprietary drivers.
Also depending on the architecture on the computer, this might be the only possible solution. I have a samsung m2020 series printer connected to a Pi to share it on the local network. Samsung Unified Driver does not work on armhf as it is only compiled for x86/x64, but splix can be compiled on armhf and it actually supports my printer
I had the same problem, the end result will be like talisman or cursed text.
I fixed the problem by switching from generic printer driver to the property one (unfortunately I had to install it from their site by downloading it using the browser like a windows scrub 🤢).
My printer is a old HP printer and distro is fedroa 38 (gnome)
Hope this helps ❤️
property
That's an interesting way to spell proprietary
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