Printer disabled

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Trying to print a document to my Canon MX920 printer which has been working for several years and it doesn’t work. From command line

SU: # lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: MX920LAN
device for MX920LAN: cnijnet:/00-BB-C1-20-89-FB
MX920LAN accepting requests since Fri 05 Apr 2024 02:11:57 PM EDT
printer MX920LAN disabled since Fri 05 Apr 2024 02:11:57 PM EDT -
        reason unknown
MX920LAN-78             edward          743424   Fri 05 Apr 2024 02:10:25 PM EDT
[root@odyssey: ~ ]
SU: # enable MX920LAN
-bash: enable: MX920LAN: not a shell builtin

You can see the printer is disabled reason unknown. When I try to enable the printer system tells me enable command not a shell built-in. I have always used enable this way with no problem. Has something changed??
and if so how do I enable a printer?

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Use the cups web interface at http://localhost:631 to manage printers.

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Added cups, printing and removed workstation

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Are you running Workstation (Fedora with GNOME) or the KDE Spin?

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does cupsenable "printer" work?

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Thanks to all who replied. I discovered after posting that I was having rather jerky mouse response to mouse movement. I ran top and found that dropbox and my canon cnijnetprn printer driver was running multiple times at 100%. Even after killing these processes the printer was still in a disable state. I had just ran an update the day before that added kernel 6.7.11-100. This morning there was an update to 6.8.4-100 that I installed and restarted. Everything seems to be normal now. Thanks again.
One other thing what is the proper command to enable a printer?? My experience and background was with UNIX of various flavors and it was always just enable from shell prompt, but that doesn’t work anymore.

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As I posted above, the currently preferred method seems to be use the cups interface.
http://localhost:631