[ale] HOW2 stop printer after printing has begun ?

[Courtney Thomas]

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... :)
> 
> 	- Mike
> 
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