Error message "Unable to send trailing nul to printer: Broken pipe" while printing to network printers in RHEL

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Issue

  • Recently when printing large documents, we've been receiving the error

    Unable to send trailing nul to printer: Broken pipe
Remote host did not accept data file (32)

  • Print jobs are randomly ending with the following error every day:

    E [17/Aug/2012:09:03:29 +0200] [Job 35840] Unable to send trailing nul to printer: Broken pipe

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.8
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.3.7
  • Printing to a network-connected printer via only the "lpd://" (Line Printer Daemon Protocol) (i.e. not socket:// or ipp://)

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