myhost# lpq myprinter is ready and printing Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size active mylogin 1073 myhost# As of Jun 10, 2009 I had net-print/cups-1.3.10-r2. As of Jul 15, 2009 I had net-print/cups-1.3.11. When I run "strace -s 256 -a 256 -x -v lpq" I see no closing "\n".
Fixed upstream, works for me in >=cups-1.4.4.