[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#489045: cups: infinite loop, 100%CPU use, while trying to print with HPJetDirect

Andreas Mohr andi at lisas.de
Mon Nov 3 14:47:31 UTC 2008


OK, using HPLIP (hp backend, which appears to be recommended) submitting
larger jobs seems to work without a backend lockup, however it's AWFULLY,
almost unusably slow (1 page per 2 minutes or so, adding up to maybe 4 minutes
per quadruple-duplexed PDF/PS page).
(HPLIP is actually known to be very slow in certain configurations, too, and
developers even already said that they're working on improving it)

I don't know, but whichever thing I try to configure in CUPS, I'm
_ALWAYS_ (yes, that's an always, since chances are about 60%)
hitting a brick wall of some more or less severe sort (and I'm
far from being the only one, judging from Internet discussions).

IOW, I found a crude if acceptable workaround, thus severity should be left at
grave, since the normal socket backend should at least be semi-usable, too.

Thanks,

Andreas Mohr





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