Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (157 mails)

[BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 07 April 2005 04:07 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote:
> On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:29, BandiPat wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 April 2005 03:02 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote:
> > > Question: Is there a "correct" way to stop a long print run once
> > > it has started? Please let me know so I don't mess up again.
> >
> > Andy,
> > I have that same printer and haven't run into this before.  I don't
> > know if it makes a difference though, but many times I'll pull up
> > the print manager to remove the queued job, then either let the
> > printer flush out it's buffer or turn it off after.  I don't think
> > you really did anything wrong, I just think you caught things at a
> > bad time during the printing.
> >
> > regards,
> > Lee
>
> Lee, Have you ever stopped a printer while it was printing? How?
> Andy
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Sure, just as I described above.  Again rather than stop a page in 
mid-stream, I'll clear the job out with the print manager and let the 
printer buffer clear itself.  But I have turned the printer off first, 
clear the job from the queue, then powered up the printer again.  
Either way should work effectively for you, but it's important to clear 
the CUPS printer queue of the job, because it will continue to send 
jobs to the printer until all jobs are exhausted.

I have KJobViewer, for the printer, on my desktop to quickly get to the 
queue of jobs.  You can also hunt down Printing Manager in the menu:
Utilities>Printing>Print Manager

regards