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Old 02-20-2008, 10:53 PM
Paul J. Dudley
 
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Default Re: Printer won't print after cancelling a print job

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:34:21 +0200, Olive wrote:

> Paul J. Dudley wrote:
>> Hello ...
>>
>> I had printed out a couple of jobs and decided to cancel the
>> last print job, right in the middle of the job. I had to manuall
>> pull the sheet of paper out of the printer. Then when I tried
>> to print again, the next job would not print.
>>
>> The way I cancelled the job was:
>> I fired up KJobViewer, put the job on 'Hold' ( to bring things to a
>> halt ) and then 'Remove' the job. As I said, now nothing will print.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions ?
>>
>> advTHANKSance
>>
>> Paul

>
> Do a lpq -a to see the status of the printers and remove (with lprm) any
> jobs you see. If see that the printer is "disabled" reenable it
> (/usr/bin/enable <printer>). It is also possible that the printer itself
> is a bit confused; in that case just switch off the printer and switch
> it on again.
>
> Olive


Thanks Olive, that cleared things up, and am printing once more ..!
Sincerely thankful

Paul

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