Canon Printer only Prints in Grayscale, No Colour

[fhonb]

Hello everyone, so it seems I somehow butchered the printer setup on both of my EOS systems and I have no idea where to start looking for a solution.

First off: The printer itself is fine. It prints in all colours, so long as I send the print job via any system other than my EOS installations. It prints in colour when it gets the job from Windows, Android, iPadOS, and iOS, just when I send it from my EOS laptops, it just will not print any colour.

As for the model of the printer: It’s a Canon Pixma MX 925.

For some reason, whenever I try to print something, grayscale is pre-selected in the printer options. I changed it to CMYK in the global settings before, but it just doesn’t seem to care. Even when I change to it to CMYK for this specific print job, it just ignores the setting and prints everything in grayscale.

I don’t know what info I could provide you that would help you figure out what’s wrong, so I’m hoping you could tell me what you need to help me fix this. I’ve had a working printing setup on Linux before (with Manjaro back then), but I don’t know that I did anything differently this time.

Please help.

[knome]

What does “Set Default Options” show for the printer at CUPS admin at localhost:631 or the System-Config-Printer application?
Perhaps default is set to monochrome or greyscale, etc., instead of color?

[ricklinux]

Not sure how you installed the printer. Did you install this package to set it up from?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/canon-pixma-mx920-complete

[fhonb]

Thank you two for replying and excuse my late reply, I typed this just before I went to bed that night – defeated – and I’ve been busy since. I didn’t actually know about that AUR package for the printer. It didn’t occur to me to check for something like it, as EOS offered a few solutions already.

With the package installed and set up as the driver set, printing in colour now works, which is great!

Thank you, solved!