stupid question

[Thomas Charron]

  10 occurances of it, and yes.  :-)

  Thomas

On 6/2/06, Christopher Chisholm <christopher.chisholm at syamsoftware.com>
wrote:
>
>
> 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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