Double printing on Epson L220 when printing from xreader

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, linux
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue in Xreader with the attached Kizuna and ACL5 PDFs on the reported Epson L220 setup, then compare the output with Evince. Trace the printing path used by Xreader and identify why the image is horizontally overprinted. Done means the PDFs print once with no offset while preserving the expected on-screen output.

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Description

 * Xreader version: 2.8.3 
 * Distribution : Mint 20.1, Cinnamon 4.8.6, Linux Kernel 5.11.0-36-generic
 * Printer:  Epson L220 inkjet printer

Issue
When printing, the image appears to be printed twice, the second offset horizontally by about 1mm, from the first

Steps to reproduce
Take a PDF (tested with PDFs from LibreOffice Write and MS Excel) and attempt to print it.

Expected behaviour
Should print what is seen on screen with no overprinting.

Other information
Printing from other applications (including Evince) does not display this problem. Also the problem appeared only recently, in the last 1-2 months. However, I do not have a version history. I normally apply all updates within one or two days.
Happy to provide other information if given a steer on what to look for

ACL5 example from LibreOffice, Kizuna example form MS Excel
kizuna example.pdf
ACL5 example.pdf

Dominant language
C
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