Printing question

[Michael R. Head]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 18:35 +0000, R Kimber wrote:
> If a job has been sent to the printer, but is then removed from
> the printer queue before it has been completed (because it is not
> printing correctly) and the printer switched off, what happens to the
> job?
> 
> I would expect it to have been deleted, but on switching on my printer
> again, it continues to spew out unwanted pages, some with a line of
> what looks like postscript on them, so it must be spooling a file to
> the printer.
> 
> How do I stop this behaviour?  I.e. how do I abort the job when the the
> print system shows no jobs being printed?

One way is to pop a terminal and do 
$ lprm

mike

> 
> Ubuntu 5.10, 2.6.12-9-amd64-k8-smp
> 
> - Richard
> -- 
> Richard Kimber
> http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
> 
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