So… Another Ubuntu spin?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA same!!!

The advance tab only lets me choose the kind of paper (Glossy photo paper in my case) and to enable/disable grayscale printing.

The Job options has the following:

Then the page tab:

As you can see, even when I select borderless, margins are still there. And I can’t set them all to 0. If I try, I still get two margins that I can’t set to 0.

As someone else mentioned, this could be a driver problem. I’m gonna try installing the CUPS driver instead of the manufacturer provided one.

What’s “vintage” for you?

I experienced it back in the early 2000s before Yum. I used CentOS recently and it really isn’t as bad as it used to be.

I don’t know how people find themselves in dependency hell nowadays. It takes an effort to break things.

Yeah it was the snap one. I’ll install a second printer using the cups driver and try again.

Hi I just wanted to come back to you about whether I was using CUPS or proprietary drivers. I am using proprietary Canon drivers provided from their support website. So I guess the official one in Linux doesn’t support it somehow?

Hi, I just wanted to get back to you about Gutenprint.

This looks old. Is it still maintained?

EDIT: I installed it and tried setting up my printer but it says it cannot use that driver. So that’s a no go I suppose.

I tried this, here’s an example of what I got.

Setting up borderless paper in the print preview:

The result after:

And then when I print, I can’t get landscape photos to print properly. Not only do I get the 4mm white border, but I get half of a landscape photo in portrait mode… like wtf.

Isn’t that like NixOS?

Thanks! I’ll take a look!

Thanks for the advice.

I did buy this printer for the purpose of printing photos. I send them out to friends with a letter every year lol. So going to a shop to get them printed kind of defeats the purpose.

I did try to use it through Wine with Bottles, but it’s looking specifically for a Windows printer (or the spool system or whatever). So that’s a no go.

Right now I’m just using a Windows VM instead.

I forgot how I installed the printer, so I need to check again if I’m using a Canon provided driver or the CUPS one.

Thanks for the advice!

Yes, I tried Darktable but I still can’t get the image to get cropped to print border-less. My smartphone camera either prints 3:4, 9:16, 1:1, or whatever the screen ratio is. But it doesn’t match the traditional 4x6 paper photo ratio. So the photo needs to be slightly cropped to fit the whole sheet.

And then when it’s time for printing, it still prints white borders anyway. Even if I select 4x6 borderless.

Seriously, the whole thing with Firefox and their privacy policy is overblown. I understand the concerns, but people gotta chill.

Besides, there aren’t good alternatives out there. The closest is Librewolf and even with that browser it’s hard to work around all the problems that the increased security creates. I couldn’t do half the shit I wanted to do when I tried it and abandonne altogether.

They do? I’ve never seen any.