Why is it that printers are so adept at ignoring print requests? It seems like this is true everywhere I've worked or gone to school.

54 vodka /home/dacut/packages/x-docs: lpstat
Printer: Hp4000West@vodka (dest Hp4000West@Hp4000West)
 Queue: 3 printable jobs
 Server: pid 21580 active
 Unspooler: pid 21581 active
 Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 13:18:20.201
 Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size Time
1      dacut@vodka+577              A   577 (STDIN)            3449678 13:15:38
2      dacut@vodka+595              A   595 (STDIN)            1579456 13:16:04
3      dacut@vodka+630              A   630 (STDIN)             481680 13:18:20