Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:33:50 -0500 From: James Bailie <jimmy@jamesbailie.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer prints garbage Message-ID: <437A0DEE.5050403@jamesbailie.com> In-Reply-To: <87d4647e0511150823u55e165f0t@mail.gmail.com> References: <87d4647e0511150823u55e165f0t@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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