Try stopping the queue and unplugging it for 30 seconds. Matthew Sherborne
> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas J. Hamman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
