-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-05-09 at 11:26 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
Just because you turn off the spigot does not mean the hose is instantly empty. The job is queued in memory on the printer and needs to empty from memory on the printer before stopping, the job has been removed from the PC but not from the printer.
No, that's not the case. When I delete the print job via cups, there remains a task (parallel) that keeps sending data to the parallel port printer - the full print job, in fact. The printer memory doesn't affect this. See Johannes Meixner mail for the explanation. The reason is, roughly, that that task has got only the raw data to send blindly to the port, and doesn't know the points where it can be safely interrupted. More or less. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEYO+TtTMYHG2NR9URAgjfAJ9mhLHByLsYTYRkUh5ACUDphPYLngCfUKjr nOQZaMwnjOq+WykKgm+HFH8= =XrDY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----