RE: Telling a printer to STOP PRINTING
Try stopping the queue and unplugging it for 30 seconds.
Matthew Sherborne
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas J. Hamman [mailto:hawk3@eagnet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2000 2:50 p.m.
> To: Debian-User
> Subject: Telling a printer to STOP PRINTING
>
>
> Can somebody please tell me how I can tell my printer to STOP?
>
> My desparate attempt to stop it from printing out the rest of a document
> after I specifically told the word processor to print out only the first
> page resulted in the current situation the printer is in now:
>
> It wants to keep "printing" blank pages, over and over and over and over
> again. I can't just wait for it to stop, because the piece of shit
> can't take paper from the tray by itself anymore without me pushing a
> piece of paper in every time. After manually feeding in the same piece
> of paper a couple dozen times, hoping the printer would get sick of it
> before me (yeah, right), I'd really like to know how to just tell it to
> please, please stop.
>
> I've tried turning it off and back on, pulling the plug and then
> plugging it back in, getting rid of the original queue (which is what
> probably got it printing blank pages instead of the rest of the document
> in the first place), and restarting the printer daemon, to no avail.
>
> It's an HP DeskJet 672C, if that helps (it sure as hell hasn't helped
> ME... piece of crap.)
>
> --
> Tom
> "I myself know nothing, except just a little, enough to extract an
> argument from another who is wise and to receive it fairly."
> -Socrates
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