On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:35:37PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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 > I find after an lprm, I also have to simultaneously power down both the printer and the computer. Rebooting the computer isn't enough!
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