printer ready on one host, not ready on another

[Jeff Blaine]

How does one go about solving this?  Restarting cups bought me nothing.

CUPS 1.3.7 fails

~:beijing> uname -a
Linux beijing 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Wed Apr 29 13:53:08 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
~:beijing> lpq -P 3k312a-hp2
3k312a-hp2 is not ready              <---------------------------------
no entries
~:beijing>

CUPS 1.1.17 works

~:quake> uname -a
Linux quake 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 13 17:56:20 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
~:quake> lpq -P 3k312a-hp2
3k312a-hp2 is ready                 <----------------------------------
no entries
~:quake>

Printing from quake works fine.