On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:49:57PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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.)
First, I'd strongly recommend getting a low-to-mid-end laser printer. DeskJet is slow crap in general -- I've got one. There are a series of control commands which can be keyed directly into some HPs through the control buttons. In my case, HP 870Cse, various sequences of keypresses have different functions. One of these, IIRC, will clear the print buffer. You should refer to documentation (in my case it *doesn't* specify these sequences), the manufacturer's website (I believe I found these there), or elsewhere on the web for info. Printing is actually a complex issue of: o The application producing initial print commands. o The local system print spool o The network print spool (if any) o The printer print buffer ...you've got to clear out all of these to kill a job. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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