[cups] HP-Laserjet-4050N

Fri Nov 10 10:42:24 PST 2017

I recently was given an HP-4050 printer.  It had only the parallel 
interface and a serial port.  I ordered a 600N Jetdirect J3113A card and 
I was off and running.  No memory modules installed, although it reports 
8MB of RAM.

I have no problems with it on Windows 7 but when I boot same hardware on 
Linux Mint 18.2 I have long waits for some printing and a healthy wait 
between pages.  Not at all what I expected.

Some excerpts from my error log are shown below.  Didn't expect to see 
anything but errors.  The logs are verbose, and seem to go on and on.

D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 12] GET /admin/log/access_log 
HTTP/1.1
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active 
clients", busy="Not busy"
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 12] Read: status=200
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 12] Authorized as "dhenzler" 
using Basic.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] cupsdIsAuthorized: username="dhenzler"
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 12] Processing GET 
/admin/log/access_log
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 12] 
filename="/var/log/cups/access_log", type=text/plain
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 12] cupsdSendHeader: code=200, 
type="text/plain", auth_type=0
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 12] Sending file.
I [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] Expiring subscriptions...

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D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 14] Accepted from localhost:43194 
(IPv4)
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 14] Waiting for request.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 14] GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active 
clients", busy="Not busy"
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 14] Read: status=200
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 14] No authentication data provided.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 14] Processing GET /favicon.ico
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 14] cupsdSendHeader: code=404, 
type="text/html", auth_type=0
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 14] Closing because Keep-Alive is 
disabled.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] [Client 14] Closing connection.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:27 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy", 
busy="Active clients"
I [09/Nov/2017:18:09:28 -0500] Expiring subscriptions...

D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] Accepted from localhost (Domain)
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] Waiting for request.
I [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] Expiring subscriptions...
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] Report: clients=5
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] Report: jobs=5
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] Report: jobs-active=0
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] Report: printers=2
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] Report: stringpool-string-count=94028
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=18832
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=1749288
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] POST / HTTP/1.1
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active 
clients", busy="Not busy"
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] Read: status=200
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] No authentication data provided.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] 2.0 Get-Jobs 1
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost/printers/
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] Returning IPP successful-ok 
for Get-Jobs (ipp://localhost/printers/) from localhost
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] Content-Length: 75
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] cupsdSendHeader: code=200, 
type="application/ipp", auth_type=0
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] con->http=0x565495ab6ca0
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] cupsdWriteClient error=0, 
used=0, state=HTTP_STATE_POST_SEND, data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODING_LENGTH, 
data_remaining=75, response=0x565495aacdc0(IPP_STATE_DATA), pipe_pid=0, 
file=-1
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] Writing IPP response, 
ipp_state=IPP_STATE_DATA, old wused=0, new wused=0
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] bytes=0, http_state=0, 
data_remaining=75
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] Flushing write buffer.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] New state is HTTP_STATE_WAITING
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] Waiting for request.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy", 
busy="Active clients"
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] HTTP_STATE_WAITING Closing 
for error 32 (Broken pipe)
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] [Client 15] Closing connection.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:32 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy", 
busy="Not busy"
I [09/Nov/2017:18:09:33 -0500] Expiring subscriptions...

D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:39 -0500] [Client 16] Flushing write buffer.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:39 -0500] [Client 16] New state is HTTP_STATE_WAITING
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:39 -0500] [Client 16] Waiting for request.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:39 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy", 
busy="Active clients"
I [09/Nov/2017:18:09:40 -0500] Expiring subscriptions...
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:50 -0500] [Client 16] HTTP_STATE_WAITING Closing 
for error 32 (Broken pipe)
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:50 -0500] [Client 16] Closing connection.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:09:50 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy", 
busy="Not busy"
I [09/Nov/2017:18:09:50 -0500] Expiring subscriptions...
I [09/Nov/2017:18:09:51 -0500] Expiring subscriptions...
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:10 -0500] [Client 17] Accepted from localhost:43210 
(IPv4)
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:10 -0500] [Client 17] Waiting for request.
I [09/Nov/2017:18:11:10 -0500] Expiring subscriptions...
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:10 -0500] Report: clients=5
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:10 -0500] Report: jobs=5
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:10 -0500] Report: jobs-active=0
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:10 -0500] Report: printers=2
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-string-count=94028
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=18832
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=1749288
I [09/Nov/2017:18:11:11 -0500] Expiring subscriptions...
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:13 -0500] [Client 17] GET /admin/log/error_log 
HTTP/1.1
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:13 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active 
clients", busy="Not busy"
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:13 -0500] [Client 17] Read: status=200
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:13 -0500] [Client 17] Authorized as "dhenzler" 
using Basic.
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:13 -0500] cupsdIsAuthorized: username="dhenzler"
D [09/Nov/2017:18:11:13 -0500] [Client 17] Processing GET 
/admin/log/error_log

Would really appreciate some help from someone who knows what is going 
on.  This doesn't seem normal at all.

I had a USB to Parallel adapter cable but couldn't make it work. I 
understand it expects to install as PARALLEL not USB.

Dave