Bug#742765: cups-filters: HP LaserJet stopper working squeeze -> wheezy

[Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>]

Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

When upgrading my system from Squeeze to Wheezy, my printer stopped working.
It's a HP LaserJet 4000, installed with Cups, HPLIP, using the PostScript PPD.
The printer has plenty of memory (384KB).
The print job would take a long time on the PC before being sent to the
printer. The printer processing light blink for a long time, and either print
an error or just stop processing and output nothing. There is no way to get a
page out of it for normal application, unless the document is dead simple.
Similarly, test pages from HPLIP works fine.

After scouring the web, part of the fix is to change the PDF to PS renderer.
The document claim loss os color accuracy when doing it, as the printer is B/W,
probably nothing was lost. I don't understand why it's not the default for
those old printers.

The magic command is :
lpadmin -p <printer-name> -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops

Note that the default PostScript PPD for the 4000 is buggy, but that's another
bug report.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups-filters depends on:
ii  fonts-freefont-ttf [ttf-freefont]  20120503-1
ii  fonts-liberation                   1.07.2-6
ii  ghostscript                        9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u1
ii  libc6                              2.13-38+deb7u1
ii  libcups2                           1.5.3-5+deb7u1
ii  libcupsfilters1                    1.0.18-2.1+deb7u1
ii  libcupsimage2                      1.5.3-5+deb7u1
ii  libfontconfig1                     2.9.0-7.1
ii  libgcc1                            1:4.7.2-5
ii  libijs-0.35                        0.35-8
ii  liblcms2-2                         2.2+git20110628-2.2
ii  libpoppler19                       0.18.4-6
ii  libstdc++6                         4.7.2-5
ii  ttf-dejavu                         2.33-3
ii  ttf-freefont                       20120503-1
ii  zlib1g                             1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages cups-filters recommends:
pn  colord            <none>
ii  foomatic-filters  4.0.17-1
ii  ghostscript-cups  9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u1

Versions of packages cups-filters suggests:
ii  foomatic-db  20120523-1

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