[KLUG Members] Re: [MDLUG] Printor problem

[Adam Williams]

>>>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.
>nce you know the "Job" number, you can issue:
>'lprm <job#>' 
>It should say that the job has been purged.
>Another 'lpq' should confirm this.

If you were using LPRng (an alternative to CUPS) you could

lprm -a all

to cancel all the print jobs on the system.
This may work with CUPS,  worth a shot.

Or else "lpc lprm all"