on Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:09:29AM -0700, Thanasis Kinias insinuated:
> 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.
many, many times. sorry -- didn't even think to post that, as it was
the first (and second, and third ...) thing i tried :)
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