Sorry, I don't have these printers offhand, and anyway the bug is not
easy to reproduce. I think it would be simpler to look at the code and
see what error codes lead to suspending the printer. IMHO, there are
almost no reasons to stop the printer: if an error occurs, kill the
current job, or maybe all jobs waiting in the queue, but don't prevent
new tasks from being printed unless you're absolutely sure that will
result in serious damage/waste.

There's also an issue that in corporate environments, it's probably OK
to suspend printers to avoid people sending jobs that won't work and
will waste paper, while in home desktops, people would prefer to be
allowed to print, and check the result. This could probably be fixed in
the GUI by showing a "Printer is suspended due to failure" notification,
with a simple way to resume it if the user has admin rights.

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  Printer shouldn't be paused after "hp" CUPS backend failed

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