[Discuss] Printer Problems in LINUX

[Nico Foltinek]

On 5/8/06, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:
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> Is there a good reliable way to completely abort any pending print jobs?
>

I'd say that once the print job has left the computer, then you lose
control of it. lpq and family are pretty useless, in my experience,
because the computer is much faster at completing its part of the
printing process than a human can react :) Once you notice that
something's wrong, the computer has already passed the print job off
to the printer and lprm is useless at that point.

I'd be tempted to turn off the printer for several seconds, if not a
minute. My assumption here is that the printer has the print job in
its memory. I see that often at Camosun when someone prints a huge
report to the wrong printer.

Similarly, if you have a print server of some sort between the printer
and the computer, it may be caching the print data. Pulling its power
for a few seconds should clear its cache.

nico

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