[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#662780: cups: new version causes printer to hang for ages, then only print a blank page

[Brian Potkin]

On Thu 17 May 2012 at 16:14:45 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:

> I think I experienced that problem today with `cups` 1.5.2-11 and
> cups-filter 1.0.16-2 and 1.0.18-1.
> 
> Although when printed to PDF from the GNOME printing dialog the file
> with the image is just 400 kB big, the print job took forever. Looking
> at the system usage (`htop`, `ps aux | grep gs`), the Ghostscript
> process used 100 % of the CPU.

Were you printing to PDF using 'Print to file' or cups-pdf?