And, when I compiled a kernel with debugging symbols for profiling, I activated usb debugging: here's the output it generated in the course of one failed printing attempt followed by switching the printer off then on again. These are the messages I got from it: some of them are a little startling (and, no, the printer wasn't on fire).
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