[ale] HOW2 stop printer after printing has begun ?

[Geoffrey]

Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> I can turn the printer power off indefinitely and when it's repowered, 
> it starts printing where it left off. That's why I said I assume the 
> spooling is from ram.
> 
> Any other thoughts  :-)
> 
> Courtney
> 
> 
> Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>> On Sat, June 10 2006 11:27, Courtney Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> I find that lpq doesn't reveal the documents that are then currently
>>> being printed. What was formerly "in queue", I guess, is then waiting in
>>> ram, and doesn't show by "lpq", as what's being printed, so .....the
>>> printing continues for quite a while if several documents have been
>>> sent, which is, really, the reason for my original query.
>>>
>>> I should have also revealed that I use 'apsfilter' for printing.
>>>
>>> Cordially,
>>> Courtney
>>>
>>
>> Ahh.  Well, yes, if the printer has memory (and I didn't figure it has 
>> _much_ since you were talking about a dot-matrix), then it is possible for 
>> the printer itself to queue documents.  If lpq shows nothing, you can 
>> follow Jim's posted solution and use that tunelp program to send a reset 
>> out, or you can just shut the power to the printer off and work on it, then 
>> bring it back on.
>>
>> As long as there is nothing actively printing in the queue at the moment in 
>> time when you turn off the printer, you can have the computer queue up new 
>> things and it will start back up when the printer comes online.
>>
>> You know, I thought I was the last person in the world to be using a 
>> dot-matrix printer... :)

Look for a current ghostscript process that's running.  Try killing it 
when the printer is off and then power it back on.

ps aux|grep "gs "

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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