When there's nothing connected the kernel can't reliably know what the problem
is. It depends on the way the signals on your parallel port happen to float.
Sorry.
If "off-line" was allowed to override "out of paper" then the latter would
never occur, since most printers are also offline when there is no paper.
p.
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