The printer is not responding

Running either rhel 5.5 with older settings or rhel 7.2 with latest CUPS updates I am seeing more and more cases where print jobs will hang with a state of "The printer is not responding". I have the printer set for retry-jobs and the jobs will always print if I cycle power on the printer or move the job to a different printer. I am able to ping the printer and this is happening in both a local environment and a wide area network. Never experienced this in the past with a physical box. Been running virtual for several years and this has just started to be more of an issue in the last 2 months primarily with Datamax barcode printers setup as socket://hostname:9100 and generic with the text-only driver or with the generic PCL 5e driver.