the reason printers are all so prone to weird issues is they violate the natural order by taking objects from the realm of pure thought (the computer) and instantiating them into the debased world of physical existence.
having your data torn from a world of endless possibilities and etched onto a thin slice of wood pulp is extremely painful, and spreadsheets know this, which is why they are constantly trying to resist being printed.
I've said this before but I have a 3d printer – a desktop device that spins fully manufactured goods out of raw commodity material – and it's substantially more reliable than any paper printer I've ever owned. So there must be something more going on. Maybe it's the trees? Maybe it's tree spirits, angry at being turned to paper pulp. 3d printing filament with wood fiber fillers is also notoriously unreliable, so, you know, there may be something there.
