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I have a desktop Linux user who needed to print to his old Canon ImageCLASS D320 printer. CUPS doesn't have any built-in drivers for this, so I had to search the Internet like a noob. But, my ability to use what I found very much depends on my experience and expertise! And thankfully, the project I found, carps-cups was well-designed and took only a small amount of expertise. A standard make && sudo make install later, we could print to the printer!

Further poking after the fact, I should have tried building a dpkg. It was a single user, in a non-scaling environment, so I didn't bother. But if the printer were on my main network (well, it would be behind the one cups server), I would have investigated a dpkg.