Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:45:48 +0100 From: Ron <iampure@gmail.com> To: James Bailie <jimmy@jamesbailie.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer prints garbage Message-ID: <87d4647e0511150845x3fc8b5e0j@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <437A0DEE.5050403@jamesbailie.com> References: <87d4647e0511150823u55e165f0t@mail.gmail.com> <437A0DEE.5050403@jamesbailie.com>
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2005/11/15, James Bailie <jimmy@jamesbailie.com>: > Ron wrote: > > > On restart of the printer, FreeBSD will send it printing > > information, but it should *not* do this, since the printer is > > out of sync with FreeBSD. The result is garbage pages. > > This is perfectly reasonable behavior. The print daemon does not > know you are trying to stop it from printing. It simply stalls > the print job when the printer stops responding, and then resumes > it when the printer is available again. If you wish to stop a > print job, use "lpq" to determine the job number and then feed > that to "lprm" to dequeue the job. Then you reset the printer to > clear out its own buffer. There is certainly a better way to do > this than to yank the plug out of the wall. One usually presses > a button to reset a printer. > > -- > James Bailie <jimmy@jamesbailie.com> > http://www.jamesbailie.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > Hi, $lpq Epson is ready no entries Since there are no entries, I also can't do lprm. I am using Cups(I forgot to mention this). Regards, Ron
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