stupid question

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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Lori Nagel <jastiv at yahoo.com>
> Do you know how to turn off the printers memory? My
> husband and I have an hp deskjet 812c and we can't
> seem to get it to stop prininting a bunch of useless
> pages.  We tried turning it on and off.  Can you help
> us so it won't print that garbage out anymore?
> 
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You can't turn off the printer's memory per se...   You have to kill the printjob. and depending on how the printer queue is managed, will depoend on what application you need to run...   If using CUPS, then you will need to use the CUPS tools to determine which print job you need to remove, if using the standard LPD printer daemon, then use lpstat to find out what is in the queue, and lprm to remove the offending job from the queue.

check the man pages for the syntax of the commands.

Chris