Random Windows help:
If you're struggling to get your new Walmart printer to print from your new Walmart laptop, do two things. 1) Check that both ink cartridges are fully inserted and latched in. 2) Restart Windows 11, even if you think it doesn't need it. 3) Load enough paper to print all of the test print jobs you accidentally queued up.
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Also, no, you're not imagining things. Microsoft made printer management much harder and more confusing in Windows 11 than it is in Windows 10.
Also also, the two hardest problems in all of comp-sci are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Oops.