this should give you a running start. probably, you'll want to modify the %printer_info key to only include the values you want, and you'll want to display the keys in the order you want.

#!/usr/bin/perl
require 5.006;
use strict;
use warnings;
$|++;

my $infile = "t-printerstatus.input";
open( inputFH, "<", $infile )
    or die "Can't open $infile for reading: $!\n";

my $logfile = "t-printerstatus.output";
open ( logFH, ">", $logfile ) 
    or die "can't open $logfile for writing: $!\n";

my %printer_info = ();
{
    ## set the input record separator to a double-newline
    local $/ = "\n\n";
    while( my $record = <inputFH> )
    {
        ## seperate the items in the record
        ## the first item is the key to the printer_info hash
        ## an item ends with a newline not followed by 
        ##   spaces and an open parenthesis
        my( $key, @item ) = split /(?x) \n (?! \s+ \( )/, $record;

        ## remove all leading whitespace from each item
        s/^\s*// for @item;

        ## split each item on a colon, 
        ## add to the key in the printer_info hash
        for( @item )
        {
            my( $name, $value ) = split /:\s+/, $_;
            @{ $printer_info{$key} }{$name} = $value;
        }
    }
}
use Data::Dumper; $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1; 
print Dumper \%printer_info;
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