On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 10 Oct 2002 6:00 pm, you wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Gavin Rollins wrote: > > > On Thursday 10 October 2002 04:21 pm, Dale Huckeby wrote: > > > > I seem to recall there was a brief discussion on either the newbie or > > > > expert list not too long ago on how to stop a print job and clear the > > > > printer's memory (don't want to waste 70 or 80 pages worth of ink), but > > > > I haven't been able to find it. Can anyone point me to it, or offer > > > > some suggestions? > > > > > > > > THX, > > > > Dale Huckeby > > > > > > Dale, > > > > > > checking my notes from my "Linux Desk Reference" book p.178 (bottom) says > > > try this command.. (straight from the book) > > > > > > lprm [-Pprinter] [-] [job#....][user.....] > > > > > > Remove the specified jobs from the print queue. > > > Example: to remove job 43 from printer lp1: > > > lprm -Plp1 43 > > > job numbers may be obtained via the lpq command. > > > I hope this helps. > > > > Alas, I killed the job, but my printer is still printing what it has > > in memory. Perhaps that command only works if you remove a job from the > > cue _before_ it starts printing. I've decided to bite the bullet so > > I can get my printer back. Right now I'm feeding it scrap paper until > > it clears its buffer. (No scrap ink to feed it, unfortuneately.) > > > I did have a similar problem yesterday. I killed and unstarted but unwanted > (duplicate) printjob from K > Configuration > Printing > Print Job > Administration - but it didn/t stop. Nor did switching off the printer to > clear the buffer work. Eventually I managed to kill it properly from the > CUPS WWW admin tool. HTH
I killed it yesterday with the CUPS WWW admin tool, turned it off for _several hours_ yesterday and again today. I just now got home, turned it on, and it's happily printing garbage letters as I speak. Wait! It just stopped! Maybe it _finally_ cleared the buffer. I'm going to try printing a _short_ job and see what happens. Thanks to all of you for the advice, commiseration, etc. Dale
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