Is the problem from a print job that has gone bad? On my Epson 660, for
some reason, some print jobs go haywire and the printer prints pages of
rubbish. I'm not sure of the cause as there does not appear to be a pattern
- though it occurs more often from KDE 2 apps with the hardwired lpd print
dialogue. I have also tried killing the printer buffer by turning off the
printer to no avail.
For me the problem was solved by running the command fuser /dev/lp0 (as
root). This gives you the PID of the process using the parallel port. Give
that process number a kill -9 eg kill -9 pidnumber. This should free up
your printer and stop the crap. (empty the print queue first though).
Hope this helps
Aaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Barnes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 3:45 AM
> To: mdk-expert
> Subject: [expert] stopping the cups printer
>
> short of reinstalling the system or deleting the
> printer is there *any* way to stop a runaway printer.
>
> lpstat -o reports no jobs.
> Cups admin says printer idle, accepting jobs
> no active jobs
> printer queue is empty
> lpc status says no entries.
> I've turned the printer off to kill its buffer.
>
> Where is this crap coming from.
>
> Thanks for help.
>
> BTW, the cups drivers do a beautiful print job on my
> Epson Stylus Color 800. Just clean up the
> administration headaches.
>
> -Bill
>
>
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