On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Joseph Zitt wrote: > Printing to an Epson Stylus Color 880 via CUPS under Madrake 8.0... > > Occasionally a random print job goes awry and, instead of printing > thePostscriptdocument properly, it prints the Postscript code, which is, > of course, huge. When this happens, I can't get the job to go away. I've > tried cancelling the job via the CUPS WWW tool, which the tool and lpstat > think it successful, yet it keeps printing. I power off the printer, wait, > and power it back on, and the code printing resumes. The only thing that > appears to help is powering down both the printer and the entire Linux > box. > > Is there a less catastrophic way to do this?
You could have a look at /tmp and manually remove any print job files in there. That is what I have had to do in the past. Those files would disappear on a reboot. -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation
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