Re: lp print queue unclearable

[Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@asu.edu>]

scripsit Nori Heikkinen:
> i haven't used my printer in a bit, but usually it's just fine.  but
> now, trying to print a letter, i find that some mysterious print queue
> appears to be full.  i /etc/init.d restart lpd several times, making
> sure there are no zombies; i lprm *; yet whenever i turn on the
> printer, it wants to print sheet after sheet of one line of garbage
> per sheet.

Sorry if this is suggesting the obvious, but have you power-cycled the
printer itself?  If you've got garbage in the printer's memory it will
do this even when there's nothing in the lp queue.

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Thanasis Kinias
tkinias at asu.edu
Doctoral Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.