[Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#517434: foo2zjs: HP LasetJet 1018 won't print

[Andrey]

Package: foo2zjs
Version: 20070718dfsg-9
Severity: grave

Hello maintainers!

Printing to my HP LaserJet 1018 used to work, but now it doesn't. I'm
not sure why, because I don't remember myself playing with printer
config recently.

I know that my printer needs proprietary firmware, and I'm pretty sure
it gets uploaded to the printer when it's connected. I get the
following diagnostics in my /var/log/messages:

Feb 27 20:59:09 neo kernel: [7777104.476831] usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 54
Feb 27 20:59:09 neo kernel: [7777104.628915] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Feb 27 20:59:09 neo kernel: [7777104.640201] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 54 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x4117
Feb 27 20:59:09 neo kernel: [7777104.640360] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=4117
Feb 27 20:59:09 neo kernel: [7777104.640370] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Feb 27 20:59:09 neo kernel: [7777104.640379] usb 4-1: Product: HP LaserJet 1018
Feb 27 20:59:09 neo kernel: [7777104.640386] usb 4-1: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Feb 27 20:59:09 neo kernel: [7777104.640393] usb 4-1: SerialNumber: KP3FK5P
Feb 27 20:59:09 neo /usr/sbin/hplj1018: foo2zjs: loading HP LaserJet 1018 firmware /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1018.dl to /dev/usb/lp0 ...
Feb 27 20:59:09 neo /usr/sbin/hplj1018: foo2zjs: ... download successful.

Then, when I try to print anything, foo2zjs and foomatic-rip processes
spawn, but nothing gets printed. I've been waiting for the processes
to terminate for at least 30 minutes, but to no avail. I get the
following diagnostics in my /var/log/messages:
 
Feb 27 21:16:05 neo foo2zjs-wrapper: foo2zjs-wrapper -P -z1 -L0 -r1200x600 -p9 -s7 -m1 -n1

Please tell me how should I debug further. It really important for me
to get printing back.

I'm ready to provide any additional info,
Andrey

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1000, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages foo2zjs depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-3      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

Versions of packages foo2zjs recommends:
ii  foomatic-db-engine      3.0.2-20080211-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
ii  wget                    1.11.4-2         retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages foo2zjs suggests:
pn  hannah-foo2zjs                <none>     (no description available)
ii  psutils                       1.17-26    A collection of PostScript documen

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