On Monday 06 Jan 2003 1:58 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Graham Pohle wrote: > >I accidentally hit the wrong key and started a printing job that has 79 > >pages and I can not stop the printing job. I'm trying to find some > >reading material on it at the moment, but if anyone knows how to stop a > >printing job on Mandrake9.0 from the command line, please tell me, it > >driving me mad each time I boot up, the job starts up again. At the > >moment I have to keep my printer turned off, if I want to run linux. > >I really needs some help on this one. > >Graham > > Best way to kill a print job is > > lpq ( to show what printjob is running) > > then > lprm (number) y/n y <enter> > > that zaps the printjob, but everything that has reached > the printer's buffer memmory has to go through regardless, > one reason not to have a particularly large buffer printer memory. > > unfortuneately none of th gui intefaces are much good at cancelling > printjobs, at least that has been my experience) > John
Once you have cleared the print job, you can then turn off the printer to clear its memory, leave it off for a few moments, then turn it on again. Unfortunately, some printers are picky about re-initialising properly after this, so it's trial and error to see if it works for you. Anne
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