Printer prints garbage

2005-11-15 Thread Ron
Hi, I am experiencing problems with the combination of FreeBSD 5.4 + Epson Stylus C60 when a job has been canceled by means of cutting the power(of the printer) while it's printing. On restart of the printer, FreeBSD will send it printing information, but it should *not* do this, since the

Re: Printer prints garbage

2005-11-15 Thread James Bailie
Ron wrote: On restart of the printer, FreeBSD will send it printing information, but it should *not* do this, since the printer is out of sync with FreeBSD. The result is garbage pages. This is perfectly reasonable behavior. The print daemon does not know you are trying to stop it from

Re: Printer prints garbage

2005-11-15 Thread Ron
2005/11/15, James Bailie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ron wrote: On restart of the printer, FreeBSD will send it printing information, but it should *not* do this, since the printer is out of sync with FreeBSD. The result is garbage pages. This is perfectly reasonable behavior. The print

Re: Printer prints garbage

2005-11-15 Thread James Bailie
Ron wrote: I am using Cups(I forgot to mention this). I know nothing of CUPS. The manual is online however, at: http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html#3_7 After a quick perusal, it appears one uses lpstat to get a job id, and then one invokes cancel [id] and then lprm [id] to cancel the job.

Re: Printer prints garbage

2005-11-15 Thread Ron
2005/11/15, James Bailie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ron wrote: I am using Cups(I forgot to mention this). I know nothing of CUPS. The manual is online however, at: http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html#3_7 After a quick perusal, it appears one uses lpstat to get a job id, and then one invokes

Re: Printer prints garbage

2005-11-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:15:50PM +0100, Ron wrote: 2005/11/15, James Bailie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ron wrote: I am using Cups(I forgot to mention this). I know nothing of CUPS. The manual is online however, at: http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html#3_7 After a quick perusal,