printing just stop working!

[felipe leon]

This is one of the typical things of linux: things break without an 
apparent reason. Lately I decide to migrate my struggle to redhat 9. I 
bought a new printer (hp deskjet 3820) and it was detected right and 
configured right with the appropriate driver and so on. I was happily 
printing for several days but then ""suddenly"" the printer starts to 
abandon printing jobs halfway "telling it has no paper" until finaly the 
jobs don't go through at all and stay "eternally" on the printing queue.

What can be possibly wrong?? the only thing I did was to change an 
option of the driver to "draft,grayscale,etc, etc" to save some ink and 
even after this change the printer was working fine and I was very happy 
because the printer was fast and saving ink.
Does anybody have any idea of what could be going on?? and an innocent 
question: my logic says that if something is configured and working 
fine, unless I break it, it should continue like that! Why?? it has to 
just stop working? do I have to become an expert on linux (to be slaved 
on solving broken things) in order to more or less efficiently use the 
operating system??

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