a phenonmenon that has apparently cropped up in prvious years resurfaces: printer initiates job accoriding to print queue but then goes to "idle" status.
console logs from /var/log/cups/error.log:
[28/Sep/2016:14:28:36 -0500] Scheduler shutting down due to program error.
E [28/Sep/2016:14:34:12 -0500] [Client 1] Unable to encrypt connection: connection closed via error
E [28/Sep/2016:14:44:46 -0500] [Client 340] Returning IPP client-error-not-possible for Cancel-Job (ipps://Audrey.local.:631/printers/HP_Officejet_Pro_8610) from [v1.fe80::10d5:c94:c076:1aa2+en0]
E [28/Sep/2016:14:48:43 -0500] [Job 2] Stopping unresponsive job.
E [28/Sep/2016:15:05:50 -0500] [Job 4] Stopping unresponsive job.
E [28/Sep/2016:21:57:00 -0500] Scheduler shutting down due to program error.
E [28/Sep/2016:23:09:13 -0500] [Job 2] Unable to cancel print job.
able to print wirelessly though...having added the airprint version of same printer