Extreme issue with network printer

leondante

Hello. I’m having issues with a network printer, Ricoh Aficio MP C3000.

It’s a common issue as I see and I’m exhausted of looking everywhere for solutions. I really don’t get it how something this common is not already solved, having in mind that is a completely handicapping issue with printers and that this seems to be not that complicated (for an engineer or developer, thing that I’m not, sadly...).

My printer spits gibberish everytime I try to print a test page. Along those lines says "If you can read this you are using the wrong driver" or so. Starts eating sheets without mercy and I have to put only three in its drawer or it takes everything in there and scrap it with just a line of gibberish per page.

I tried EVERYTHING. I know this printer is OK and the drivers too, because it printed before with this PC and the same Garuda (Arch) version just days ago and the same driver exactly. Just one day after erasing everything and adding it again, after some DAYS trying, it got to work perfectly. Now NOTHING is working. I tried installing and reinstalling and erasing and adding and trying PS, and PDF, and everything out there I found without any kind of small success.

I’m really tired, but I know this can work without issues, I just need to know what to do to save the hidden (to me) thing that is stopping it from working.

I also deleted everything, rebooted everything, plugged and unplugged everything and I will spend hours and hours on this matter until I solve it because I need that printer working.

I'm using CUPS and came here looking for a specific CUPS forum that I didn't found. I really have spent tens of hours already on this issue and I don't know where to look. Even tried AI looking for solutions.

Thank you in advance.