[plug] cancelling a CUPS print job

[Bernd Felsche]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:11:21PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > Cycle the power on whatever's connected to the parallel port.
> 
> Yes, I've always done that to flush the junk from the printer buffer.

> > top will tell you why parallel is waiting; well sort of.
> 
> Its just trying to continue the print job, but should have exited.
> Maybe cups is sending it a kill signal, since it ignores them.
> You need kill -9.

Which leaves the state of the parallel port in limbo.

I suggest you try another parallel cable.

> Now its worse. This time, I cancel the job, kill parallel, and cyle the
> printer. CUPS says printer is not reasy. Restarting CUPS doesnt fix it.
> 
> Does _anybody_ have CUPS working properly with a parallel printer?

I do. No problems with a Lexmark Optra R+ laser.

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