Printer status: stopped. This is murder.

[Silviu Marin-Caea]

> I agree that a grandma or grandpa Linux user who aren't PC experts
> will not easily discover or be taught about localhost:631. But there's
> not much *CUPS* can do about this. Or would you seriously ask CUPS to
> provide its own (non-web) GUI for alerting users about printing problems?

To go on record:
The actual solution to the problem is setting in /etc/cups-autoconfig.conf
DisablePrintersOnRemoval=no
The printer does not become "stopped" after being turned off.
So, the real culprit is the cups-autoconfig package, not CUPS.