Neither Ubuntu nor the upstream developers of Gutenprint remove the support for any printer. What happened here is that changes between Gutenprint 5.2.4 and 5.2.5 have introduced a bug. Your printer is working now as you have downgraded to the older 5.2.4 version.
Neither Ubuntu nor the upstream developers of Gutenprint remove the support for any printer. What happened here is that changes between Gutenprint 5.2.4 and 5.2.5 have introduced a bug. Your printer is working now as you have downgraded to the older 5.2.4 version.