Comment 12 for bug 597612

@Till: thanks again.

0) Thanks for this hint. I will try this later (I need some more time to download, burn the cd ...)

1) The crashing procedure has been reported to bug #605448 - LaunchPad automatically marked this as a duplicate of bug #560508 --- unfortunately this bug is not accessible "Not allowed here - Sorry, you don't have permission to access this page." - is there anybody able to "open" this bug for me or for everybody?

2) Print self test page is not an issue for laserjet: the button should be disabled (grey) - see bug #510781

3) Issue #3 has been included in crash description of issue #1 into bug #605448

4a/b) Removing the "n" from the model name - the driver search includes now more options, which are:
HP LaserJet 1320 series Postiscrip [en]
HP LaserJet 1320 hpijs, 3.10.2 [en] (which is the current one)
HP LaserJet 1320 Series hpijs pcl3, 3.10.2 [en]
HP LaserJet 1320 - CUPS+Guteprint v5.2.5 Simplified [en]
HP LaserJet 1320 - CUPS+Guteprint v5.2.5 [en]
HP LaserJet 1320 Foomatic/Postscript [en]
HP LaserJet 1320 Foomatic/pxlmono [en]

According to Your instructions, I installed the last one Foomatic/pxlmono. It works with plain-text files, and also from OpenOffice, GIMP, and with two-side printing.

Then I tried to print some PDF files which showed me the problem... a disaster!!! For 6 minutes the computer became not usable (later, "uptime" command show a max load of 9). The hard-disk worked a lot, and all the applications became "gray-shadows", while the mouse moves jumping.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log reported 2 errors:
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
Got unexpected buttonTimer in state 0

As soon as this problem finished (6 minutes more or less) the "data communication" LED of the printer start flashing, meaning that data is incoming. The (good) job viewer shows "work in progress" for the 1489KBytes file pending at the end of the printing queue. I wait for 10 more minutes with this LED flashing but nothing else happened. The jobviewer still display the "work in progress", the LED is still flashing, and I can't find any error in /var/log about the printer. And the document is not printed.

After this total 16 minutes I cancelled the document from the queue, but the LED of the printer still flashes, as before. I turn it off and on again to resume it normal operations.

Ciao
CM