Op Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:37:20 -0500 Thomas H. George wrote: > Occasionally something in a .ps document fails to translate (gs?) > into a printable document and my printers then spit out hundreds of > pages each containing one line of jibberish. > > It does no good to clear the print queue,
To terminate all processes still using the printer device even after deleting the job from the queue, use this command: fuser -k /dev/lp0 for a printer on the first parallel port, or fuser -k /dev/usb/lp0 for the first USB printer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
