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Installing Panasonic printer drivers on NixOS

At my workplace, we have a Panasonic KX-MB2138CN printer. One of my colleagues developed a web interface (including a backend) for it. It allows printing PDF files (one-sided), and it worked well for most of the time.

However, it's not prefect: it only supports printing PDF files single-sided, there are no configuration options, and it doesn't integrate well with rest of the system (things like Ctrl+P won't recognize it).

Plus, it hasn't been maintained for a while, so I decided to just set up the printer in CUPS on my machine and use that instead. Unfortunately it turned out to be a bit more difficult than I expected.