[ale] Man 7.2: printer won't stop

[Jeff Hubbs]

Funny; both you guys who responded mentioned Epson Stylus printers and
darned if I wasn't dealing with an Epson Stylus Color IIs.  I went ahead and
put a Canon BJ-230 (the first printer I ever owned; 6 years old and still
works great) it its place.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Kinney [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:24 AM
> To: Wandered Inn
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Man 7.2: printer won't stop
> 
> 
> With my Epson stylus640, I have to unplug the parallel cable 
> for about 30
> seconds to lose a broken print job. Apparently, the IEEE1284 
> connection
> allows for a power trickle that keeps a print job alive.
> 
> At some point, I should try just bouncing the parallel-port 
> module(s) to
> try and kill a postscript->ascii_garbage print job. If that 
> works, it will
> be a _welcome_ addition to the tool box! We often have problems with
> adding paper to a long print job and having the job recover 
> and continue
> correctly.
> 
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Wandered Inn wrote:
> 
> > Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to stop a screwed-up print job.  Power-cylcing 
> printer won't
> > > stop it, I killed the job in CUPS, still it prints junk.  
> What can I do
> > > to make the printer die?
> >
> > I've had this problem before and the resolution that worked 
> for me is:
> >
> > kill the job (which you did)
> > turn the printer off (which you did)
> > remove power from the printer, and leave it for a few 
> minutes without
> > power.
> >
> > Many printers have memory and will retain print data.  If 
> you remove the
> > power, it will lose what's in memory.
> >
> > Other's may have a better solution, but this works for me 
> with my Epson
> > Stylus and worked with a previous Canon printer.  As a 
> matter of fact,
> > the Canon docs actually provided this solution.
> >
> > >
> > > - Jeff
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