canceling a print job

Forum: Printers
Topic: canceling a print job
started by: anime2k3

Posted by anime2k3 on Dec. 09 2004,13:03

now that i got my printer to work it wont stop printing, how can i delete the curent print jobs or at least cancel them so that i may continue printing other stuff.

thanks alot for your help. im really starting to get familiar with dsl and im loving it.

Posted by roberts on Dec. 09 2004,16:28

Take a lot at the command, run a root.

# lpc --help

Many options to control the printer.
But note, many have laser printers with huge print buffers and many times the print job(s) have already left the unix print spooler. Usually a button on the printer will stop the current print job.

If the printer has a small buffer, you may have sucess with the lpc command.
try this

# lpc stop lp all

Where "lp" is the name of your printer when defined during setup.

Posted by anime2k3 on Dec. 10 2004,13:09

thankyou very much roberts it worked!