[Ql-Users] stop printing
I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and can't stop it! I've used PAR_ABORT and PAR_CLEAR in QPC2 and tried deleting the print job in Windoze. No joy - it looks like Winodze will only stop it at the end of the print job. Closing down Windoze and switching off the printer just makes it resume when the computer's restarted. I forgot I was sending an SDUMP print for Epsons to a HP printer which ain't Epson compatible. So it prints every byte of "graphics" data as text, about 2 or 3 characters per page. At this rate the house will be buried in paper. Anyone know how to force Windoze to stop??? Help! (Put Windoze on pause for now, but it will stop anything else printing until I can clear it) -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
Dilwyn Jones wrote: I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and can't stop it! I've used PAR_ABORT and PAR_CLEAR in QPC2 and tried deleting the print job in Windoze. No joy - it looks like Winodze will only stop it at the end of the print job. Closing down Windoze and switching off the printer just makes it resume when the computer's restarted. I forgot I was sending an SDUMP print for Epsons to a HP printer which ain't Epson compatible. So it prints every byte of "graphics" data as text, about 2 or 3 characters per page. At this rate the house will be buried in paper. Anyone know how to force Windoze to stop??? Help! (Put Windoze on pause for now, but it will stop anything else printing until I can clear it) Maybe try reading here?? http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/169621-46-cannot-kill-print -- Paul Holmgren Mine: 2 57 300-C's in Indy Hers: 05 PT GT R/T HO Hoosier Corps L#6 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
- Original Message - From: "Paul Holmgren" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing Dilwyn Jones wrote: I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and can't stop it! Maybe try reading here?? http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/169621-46-cannot-kill-print -- Paul Holmgren Thanks. I also found that running this command script I got from M$ Help works as a last resort: net stop spooler del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.shd del %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\*.spl net start spooler I guess it probably amounts to pretty much the same principle. Looks like a "known problem" in Windoze. Seems to be plenty of advice about this online! -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
Except in my case, trying this failed to do anything. Every time I switched back on, more paper with one or two text characters on it. Seems (as Paul's email implied) you have to resort to stopping the Windoze spooler, then getting rid of any spooler files in the folder indicated in the script, which is pretty well what the 4 line script I sent does. I've saved that script as a little command file I can run in Windoze now next time I goof like that... I wonder if Marcel knows how much pain his work can cause Windoze? Of course, QPC didn't do anything wrong, neither did Windoze for that matter. My fault sending an Epson screen dump to a Hewlett Packard printer :-( -- Dilwyn Jones - Original Message - From: "P Witte" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing The first thing I do is remove the paper from the input tray. Then cancel the print job in Windoze. Then switch the printer on and off until its print buffer has emptied. Eventually all parts of the chain error out or give up in exhaustion. The details depend on your OS version, printer and setup, of course. Its a horrible business. Cant think why M$ and the printer makers havent been able to find a solution to this in all these years, but I suppose they dont really mind: Our pain is their gain. Per Dilwyn Jones wrote: I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and can't stop it! I've used PAR_ABORT and PAR_CLEAR in QPC2 and tried deleting the print job in Windoze. No joy - it looks like Winodze will only stop it at the end of the print job. Closing down Windoze and switching off the printer just makes it resume when the computer's restarted. I forgot I was sending an SDUMP print for Epsons to a HP printer which ain't Epson compatible. So it prints every byte of "graphics" data as text, about 2 or 3 characters per page. At this rate the house will be buried in paper. Anyone know how to force Windoze to stop??? Help! (Put Windoze on pause for now, but it will stop anything else printing until I can clear it) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
The first thing I do is remove the paper from the input tray. Then cancel the print job in Windoze. Then switch the printer on and off until its print buffer has emptied. Eventually all parts of the chain error out or give up in exhaustion. The details depend on your OS version, printer and setup, of course. Its a horrible business. Cant think why M$ and the printer makers havent been able to find a solution to this in all these years, but I suppose they dont really mind: Our pain is their gain. Per Dilwyn Jones wrote: I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and can't stop it! I've used PAR_ABORT and PAR_CLEAR in QPC2 and tried deleting the print job in Windoze. No joy - it looks like Winodze will only stop it at the end of the print job. Closing down Windoze and switching off the printer just makes it resume when the computer's restarted. I forgot I was sending an SDUMP print for Epsons to a HP printer which ain't Epson compatible. So it prints every byte of "graphics" data as text, about 2 or 3 characters per page. At this rate the house will be buried in paper. Anyone know how to force Windoze to stop??? Help! (Put Windoze on pause for now, but it will stop anything else printing until I can clear it) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
I have found that the easiest way of cancelling a print job is to remove the
paper. My printer (Epson Stylus D120) then reports "Paper not Loaded
Properly" and gives the option to cancel the print job. This works
immediately every time.{:-)
This facility is not however available on my HP DeskJet 610C printer and I
then have Dilwyn's problem (and another tree or two are felled!!) {:-(
John Gilpin.
- Original Message -
From: "Dilwyn Jones"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
Except in my case, trying this failed to do anything. Every time I
switched back on, more paper with one or two text characters on it.
Seems (as Paul's email implied) you have to resort to stopping the Windoze
spooler, then getting rid of any spooler files in the folder indicated in
the script, which is pretty well what the 4 line script I sent does.
I've saved that script as a little command file I can run in Windoze now
next time I goof like that...
I wonder if Marcel knows how much pain his work can cause Windoze? Of
course, QPC didn't do anything wrong, neither did Windoze for that matter.
My fault sending an Epson screen dump to a Hewlett Packard printer :-(
--
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: "P Witte"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
The first thing I do is remove the paper from the input tray. Then cancel
the print job in Windoze. Then switch the printer on and off until its
print buffer has emptied. Eventually all parts of the chain error out or
give up in exhaustion. The details depend on your OS version, printer and
setup, of course.
Its a horrible business. Cant think why M$ and the printer makers havent
been able to find a solution to this in all these years, but I suppose
they dont really mind: Our pain is their gain.
Per
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and can't
stop it!
I've used PAR_ABORT and PAR_CLEAR in QPC2 and tried deleting the print
job in Windoze. No joy - it looks like Winodze will only stop it at the
end of the print job. Closing down Windoze and switching off the printer
just makes it resume when the computer's restarted.
I forgot I was sending an SDUMP print for Epsons to a HP printer which
ain't Epson compatible. So it prints every byte of "graphics" data as
text, about 2 or 3 characters per page. At this rate the house will be
buried in paper. Anyone know how to force Windoze to stop???
Help! (Put Windoze on pause for now, but it will stop anything else
printing until I can clear it)
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Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
Ahem, I should have mentioned that I dont reinsert the paper in the
paper tray until this procedure terminates successfully, thus saving
vast tracts of Finnish forest! Of course, obliterating the spooler
files manually may shorten the time taken in some setups.
ATB Per
John Gilpin wrote:
I have found that the easiest way of cancelling a print job is to remove
the paper. My printer (Epson Stylus D120) then reports "Paper not Loaded
Properly" and gives the option to cancel the print job. This works
immediately every time.{:-)
This facility is not however available on my HP DeskJet 610C printer and
I then have Dilwyn's problem (and another tree or two are felled!!) {:-(
John Gilpin.
- Original Message - From: "Dilwyn Jones"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
Except in my case, trying this failed to do anything. Every time I
switched back on, more paper with one or two text characters on it.
Seems (as Paul's email implied) you have to resort to stopping the
Windoze spooler, then getting rid of any spooler files in the folder
indicated in the script, which is pretty well what the 4 line script I
sent does.
I've saved that script as a little command file I can run in Windoze
now next time I goof like that...
I wonder if Marcel knows how much pain his work can cause Windoze? Of
course, QPC didn't do anything wrong, neither did Windoze for that
matter. My fault sending an Epson screen dump to a Hewlett Packard
printer :-(
--
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message - From: "P Witte"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
The first thing I do is remove the paper from the input tray. Then
cancel the print job in Windoze. Then switch the printer on and off
until its print buffer has emptied. Eventually all parts of the chain
error out or give up in exhaustion. The details depend on your OS
version, printer and setup, of course.
Its a horrible business. Cant think why M$ and the printer makers
havent been able to find a solution to this in all these years, but I
suppose they dont really mind: Our pain is their gain.
Per
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and
can't stop it!
I've used PAR_ABORT and PAR_CLEAR in QPC2 and tried deleting the
print job in Windoze. No joy - it looks like Winodze will only stop
it at the end of the print job. Closing down Windoze and switching
off the printer just makes it resume when the computer's restarted.
I forgot I was sending an SDUMP print for Epsons to a HP printer
which ain't Epson compatible. So it prints every byte of "graphics"
data as text, about 2 or 3 characters per page. At this rate the
house will be buried in paper. Anyone know how to force Windoze to
stop???
Help! (Put Windoze on pause for now, but it will stop anything else
printing until I can clear it)
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Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
Dilwyn Jones wrote: I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and can't stop it! I've used PAR_ABORT and PAR_CLEAR in QPC2 and tried deleting the print job in Windoze. No joy - it looks like Winodze will only stop it at the end of the print job. Closing down Windoze and switching off the printer just makes it resume when the computer's restarted. I forgot I was sending an SDUMP print for Epsons to a HP printer which ain't Epson compatible. So it prints every byte of "graphics" data as text, about 2 or 3 characters per page. At this rate the house will be buried in paper. Anyone know how to force Windoze to stop??? Help! (Put Windoze on pause for now, but it will stop anything else printing until I can clear it) Ok, you're on the right track, as I understand the beast: this is primarily what seems to be happening 1 You initate a print job 2 MOST all the printer control stuff is now handed off to winderze 3 makes for a cheaper printer, less work on the printer makers tech types 4 Widerze has to buffer the print job so that it can be passed to the printer at a workable speed, 5 SO it (the print job) gets placed in a temp file of some sort, maybe even 2 diff places, the print spooler temp file and the SWAP file ?? 6 anyway, once placed in a temp file situation, the DATA is still there until the print spooler part of winderze is happy it did what it was supposed to so: spit out paper from the printer. the process suggested on that link is guiding folks to where the temp files are hiding, just awaiting the all clear from the printspooler in winderze Now having taxed the brain too much I must take it out and retire off to the spa (providing I can afford it in todays economy) and get off the soapbox -- Paul Holmgren Mine: 2 57 300-C's in Indy Hers: 05 PT GT R/T HO Hoosier Corps L#6 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
Evening Dilwyn, > Dilwyn Jones wrote: >> I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and can't >> stop it! My HP printer has a menu button upon which is a "cancel job" option. I also have a button to cancel job as well. Does yours? Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
