Thanks to Joseph Sinclair's tip to use: sudo apt-get clean
I have plenty of space now, but I still can't print an .odt
document with an image in it ... but I can print .odt docs
with text in them okay.

HL2270DW-2760 joe 331776 Sat 13 Mar 2021 01:38:00 PM MST
HL2270DW-2767 joe 114688 Mon 15 Mar 2021 12:20:33 PM MST

And the .odt document is not even that big:
-rw-r--r--  1 joe 202472 Mar 13 13:23 pat-counter.odt

Here is my current df with plenty of available space:
t420: df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev             4006644        4   4006640   1% /dev
tmpfs             805480     1568    803912   1% /run
/dev/sda1       19091584  7087224  11011492  40% /
none                   4        0         4   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none                5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
none             4027392    28100   3999292   1% /run/shm
none              102400       20    102380   1% /run/user
/dev/sda6      101787928 33536444  63057760  35% /home
overflow            1024       44       980   5% /tmp

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On 2021-03-15 12:34 am, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> If your root drive is still almost completely full the print job is
> probably not printing because the print system is trying to write a
> temp file with the print job in your printers native language which
> can be quite large and running out of space to write it.
> You're probably seeing small and simple print jobs succeed while
> larger print jobs with images are failing.
> 
> I once had someone complaining that her 22 page document was taking a
> very long time to print to a network attached printer.   It turned out
> that the 22 page document because of some bad formatting and large
> embedded images had to be turned into an 800+ meg file in order to be
> printed and then that file was having to be sent over a 100Mb
> connection which just plain took a few minutes to complete the
> transfer of the entire document to the printer, making for a very slow
> print.  Since it was a document that would be printed a lot, the fix
> was to recreate the document in a way that minimized the actual print
> file size.
> 
> Brian Cluff
> 
> On 3/14/21 8:40 PM, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Thanks John (and all) ...
>> 
>> Now the display of different backgrounds on different
>> desktops (which had stopped working) has mysteriously,
>> and spontaneously started working again, even though
>> I made no changes.
>> 
>> And Libre office, which was knot working, has started
>> working again, again, even though I made no changes.
>> 
>> But now Libre office will print .odt documents with
>> plain text in portrait mode, but it will not print
>> an .odt document in landscape with an image in the
>> document.
>> 
>> PS: I have Mint 17.2 Mate with Brother printer HL2270DW

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