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How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi

A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very reliable piece of hardware, especially for a printer. Then came Windows 10. The printer would not work out of the box with it and the official drivers got stuck during installation. Fiddling with the printer in device manager, trying to install drivers via Windows Update and stars aligning got the printer to work again. Then came Windows 11. Nothing I did could get it working now, and the printer is ...

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