I recently updated my Mint desktop and found that I can no longer print to my local printer, which was working fine until the update. Now, I'm drowning in technical jargon like CUPS and PPD files just to print a simple page. This is one of my biggest frustrations with Linux — things that used to work perfectly suddenly stop functioning, making me feel like I need to become an expert just to resolve basic issues.
4 Answers
Printing is still working for me on Kubuntu 25.10, so it seems like this might be an issue specific to Mint. Since Mint is based on Ubuntu, maybe you could look into how other users on Ubuntu are handling the same problem.
First thing, make sure your printer is turned on! You’d be surprised how often that's the culprit. If that’s all good, you might want to try reinstalling the printer through CUPS or see if it helps to select a different driver.
I had similar issues, but I managed to get it sorted. I reinstalled my printer, which was a hassle because I had to select a working one from the menu again. You might want to give that a try if you haven’t already.
There was indeed a CUPS update that messed things up for a lot of users recently. It sounds like there’s been a subsequent fix, but if you’re still having issues, it might be worth checking for updates again or looking into specific drivers for your printer.
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