Ah, sorry. It was the HP backend: I experienced this behavior with a Laserjet 1100 and a Photosmart A612, which presumably didn't fail because of the same kind of problem. But of course the error was more severe than lack of paper: with the latter device, a page wasn't printed correctly.
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