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I am facing the same problem as the gentleman over here. That is I can't get my printer to print (but I could a few days ago).

I get the same error messages in /var/log/cups/error_log, the only difference being that my printer is a Brother QL-700 (monochrome label printer).

This person suggests to downgrade cups-filters to version 1.26.2 but I just don't know how to proceed because the only available version on the official repo is 1.28.15

$ apt list --all-versions cups-filters
Listing... Done
cups-filters/jammy,now 1.28.15-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

# I should also mention that
$ apt-cache showpkg cups-filters | grep 1.26
# returns nothing

I am running Ubuntu 22.04.1.

Buddyshot
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    SO is a programming Q&A platform and this question is not about programming. Questions about operating systems, their utilities, networking and hardware, are off topic here. [What topics can I ask about here?](https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic). Please delete this and ask, instead, on [Unix & Linux Stack Exchange](https://unix.stackexchange.com/) or, in this case, https://askubuntu.com/ or https://superuser.com/ – Rob Dec 29 '22 at 21:25
  • You are totally right, I just got so used to SO and forgot that other (more specific) platforms existed. – Buddyshot Dec 29 '22 at 22:24
  • That said, the answer provided by Ron below really helped me. Even if the question is not on the right platform, I think future users might want to have access to this information. How should I proceed? – Buddyshot Dec 29 '22 at 22:27
  • Your question is up for closure and will be deleted soon afterwards. – Rob Dec 29 '22 at 23:50

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One way around this is to go directly to a repo: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cups-filters/

and download an older version like: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cups-filters/cups-filters_1.27.4-1_amd64.deb

then install locally via:

dpkg -i cups-filters_1.27.4-1_amd64.deb

but you might then have to sort out any dependency issues manually.

Ron
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