[KLUG Members] Re: [MDLUG] Printor problem

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Bill wrote:

> I accidentally sent a huge picture to my printer via a driver I 
> knew was set up wrong but had not gotten around to fixing yet. 
> Okay ... my boo boo. I was printing a copy of the internet :-) 
> and couldn't be bothered just then.
> 
> I have cleaned out every print cache I can find (CUPS and the 
> KDE printer utility) ... the print qeues I can find are empty. 
> Still ... the results I am getting tell me there must be a live 
> cache somewhere.

   From the command line (as GUI usually sucks):

   'lpq' will show what jobs are in your printer queue.

   Once you know the "Job" number, you can issue:

   'lprm <job#>' 

   It should say that the job has been purged.
   Another 'lpq' should confirm this.

   Beware, that portion of the job that has already been spooled into the
memory of the printer itself will still need to finish printing.  Let's
hope your printer only has a few K or RAM...

   Hope this helps,
      --- Jay
             
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