Printing pdfs extremely slow

[Eric Hazen]

HP Laserjet 3030 prints PDFs with photos extremely slowly (sometimes 10 min per page).
Worked fine under Ubuntu 16.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: cups 2.3.1-9ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-29.33-generic 5.4.30
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat May 16 18:14:06 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-12 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
Lpstat:
 device for hp_LaserJet_3030: hp:/usb/hp_LaserJet_3030?serial=00CNBM023795
 device for hp_LaserJet_3030_fax: hpfax:/usb/hp_LaserJet_3030?serial=00CNBM023795
MachineType: MSI MS-7977
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
 Error: command ['fgrep', '-H', '*NickName', '/etc/cups/ppd/hp_LaserJet_3030.ppd', '/etc/cups/ppd/hp_LaserJet_3030_fax.ppd'] failed with exit code 2: grep: /etc/cups/ppd/hp_LaserJet_3030.ppd: Permission denied
 grep: /etc/cups/ppd/hp_LaserJet_3030_fax.ppd: Permission denied
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-29-generic root=UUID=a373b71f-c986-48fa-897f-bb1349f51f82 ro net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: cups
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/22/2016
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.A0
dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.board.name: Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.A0:bd07/22/2016:svnMSI:pnMS-7977:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnZ170AGAMINGM5(MS-7977):rvr1.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.family: Default string
dmi.product.name: MS-7977
dmi.product.sku: Default string
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI