Printing to HP LaserJet 4L via CUPS/IPP doesn't work

[Paul Gear]

On a Dapper Drake desktop printing to the parallel-port-attached HP LaserJet 4L works perfectly. When printing to the same queue via a Dapper laptop on the same LAN (using an IPP URI of ipp://HOSTNAME/printers/QUEUENAME), printouts don't come out. Instead, a printout containing the following appears:

-12345X@PJL
@PJL SET MANUALFEED=OFF
@PJL SET ECONOMODE=OFF
@PJL SET COPIES=1
@PJL SET RET=MEDIUM
@PJL SET DENSITY=3
(one line of binary data from job follows)

It appears that somehow the opening escape character that triggers PJL mode is being lost. This happens regardless of which of the four available drivers (ljet4, hpijs, Gutenprint, and one other i can't remember) is selected.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

Could you please attach a tarball of your /etc/cups directory?

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Thanks for you bug report.
This bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system.
A workaround is described in bug #55828.
Closing this bug as a duplicate of bug #55282. Please add further comments in that bug report.

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