My printer is connected via ethernet to a router, and my computer is also connected via ethernet to the same router. In the past few weeks, the printer has begun to lose print jobs that I send from the computer. Sometimes the printer prints only the first page of a multipage print job, then stops as if the job is done (and the print queue is clear). Other times, the printer beeps to signal that it received the print job, but then the job vanishes from the queue on both the computer and the printer, without finishing the job.
And then, without any change to settings or even time having passed, the print jobs will function correctly. Just now, after I had a series of only the first page of a two-page print job printing, then both pages printed. No changes, same web page, even the same session in the same browser.
The problem occurs across applications - Safari, Word, PDF reader.
It's as if the printer queue receives the print job, then "forgets" the print job, either immediately or after printing one page.
This is a Mac running Big Sur.
(Yes, there is paper in the printer.)
I would appreciate any quick advice to fix this issue.
Thank you in advance.
