Re: [Sheflug] Printing issue

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:20, Lesley Binks wrote:
> When the printer gets in to this state, is there anything I can do to 
> stop a print job being loaded up to the printer?  Are there any printer 
> modules which look ahead and detect the state of the printer and stop 
> feed to the printer from the print server so that I don't end up with a 
> buffer load of gibberish coming out that has to be cleared in the manner 
> described above?

Generally, if you switch the printer off for a few seconds and also
cancel the print job using lprm then the job should vanish. Unless the
Epson holds the print data in a non-volatile store, that will work.

We have an HP9300 here, which I was delighted to find sporting a real
and functional print job cancel button! You do still need to lprm
pending jobs, though, and I do still occasionally get printing funnies.

Seb James

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