stupid question

[Christopher Chisholm]

Hey, no one disagrees they make it easy (if everything works the way it 
should).  But was it worth the $300 license to avoid 30 minutes of research?

-chris

Thomas Charron wrote:
> *tounge in cheeck*
>
>   God damned.  Sure wish Microsoft would make it that easy for a 
> novice.  ;-)
>
>   *Runs like mad*
>
>   Thomas
>
> On 6/2/06, * Jerry Feldman* <gaf at blu.org <mailto:gaf at blu.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Friday 02 June 2006 3:23 pm, fj1200 at comcast.net
>     <mailto:fj1200 at comcast.net> wrote:
>     >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>     > From: Lori Nagel <jastiv at yahoo.com <mailto: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?
>
>     > 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.
>     You need to do BOTH.
>     First, turn off the printer. This will effectively clear the printer's
>     memory, BUT it will not remove the print job from your computer.
>     Next, use the lprm command (or CUPS) to cancel the print job.
>
>     The lp commands are:
>     lpq #this will tell you what jobs are queued up. If you have more
>     than one
>     printer, use the -P (upper case P) option.
>
>     lprm # Remove a job from the queue. You get the job number from
>     the lpq
>     command. Again, the -P option can be used to point at the specific
>     printer.
>
>     These will work with CUPS. Additionally, printer queues survive
>     reboots.
>
>     Once all the jobs are removed, then it is safe to turn on your
>     printer. The
>     memory should be cleared.
>
>
>     --
>     Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org <mailto:gaf at blu.org>>
>     Boston Linux and Unix user group
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