Manjaro, Canon Pixma G600 error: pdftopdf stopped

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welshpixie
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Manjaro, Canon Pixma G600 error: pdftopdf stopped

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EDIT - Fixed! Leaving this here in case anyone else has the same problem.

THE FIX: had to delete the printer from the TurboPrint Control Center, then re-add it, so that it built clean PPD configs for the printer.

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Printer was working fine last week, today it's not printing (even test pages).

Shows up in Cups with the error 'Idle - "universal filter failed."'

When I try to print, error in cups is '"cfFilterChain: pdftopdf (PID 8410) stopped with status 1"'

Have tried forcing cups package updates through the terminal, restarting cups, restarting the printer, restarting the PC.

When I turn logging on, I get the attached error.

Also tried running the following sequence of commands:

sudo pacman -Syu cups cups-filters libcupsfilters manjaro-printer
sudo systemctl stop cups.service
sudo rm -rf /var/spool/cups/tmp/*
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now cups.service cups.socket cups.path

Any help very much appreciated <3
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