Just to close this topic, I gave up on the Canon printer. I got a hand-me-down HP Laserjet 1022, and this one works with the (generic) Foomatic foo2zjs-z1 driver assigned automatically by the system.
Just to close this topic, I gave up on the Canon printer. I got a hand-me-down HP Laserjet 1022, and this one works with the (generic) Foomatic foo2zjs-z1 driver assigned automatically by the system.