** Description changed:

  Printing takes too long, or occasionally fails. During the print job,
  process gs takes 100% cpu and printer pauses for a long time. This
  happens on Ubuntu 10.04 32bit on a 500Mhz Pentium 3 with 312MB of ram,
  on Ubuntu 10.10 64bit on a 2.4Ghz Q6600 quad core with 4GB of ram, and
  on Ubuntu 10.10 32bit in a virtual machine with 1024MB of ram. Both
  printers I have are affected. Officejet Pro 8000, Canon iP4500. Printing
  is faster in 8.04 LTS.
  
  The attached PDF seams to cause particular problems and takes about 10
  minutes to print. The gs process is using 100% cpu all this time.  I'v
  noticed that the drop shadows in the attached document aren't always
  printed. But this document isn't the only one affected. Photos and web
  pages also pause during printing in draft and photo print modes.
  
  I read the instructions here
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems to disable apparmor
  using 'sudo aa-complain cupsd' but this made no difference.
  
  I've just tested an old Apple 8500 which is a postscript printer.
  Printing takes a very long time to start, and process pdftops uses 100%
  cpu during all this time if this is of any relevence.
  
  Printer test page works fine.
+ 
+ I've noticed this mainly affects documents with objects that are blurred
+ and transparent. Eg. create an object in inkscape and set opacity to 80
+ and blur to 40; and the printer becomes lethargic. A shape with opacity
+ set to 100 and blur set to 0 prints in the blink of an eye.

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Printing speed problem
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668800
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