Please can you update cups-1.2.3 package for bug STR #1968 documented/resolved upstream ... http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1968 I have the same problem here in my Gentoo box where hplip-1.6.7 works fine with cups-1.2.2 but does not works at all with cups-1.2.3.
it is already bumped, please be more specific if you need anything else. Thanks
Created attachment 97913 [details, diff] Patch to fix 100% CPU usage in cups-1.2.3 Sorry, I was too fast. BTW to fix this bug in cups-1.2.3, you must apply the following patch. It's now included in the stable release of cups-1.2.4.