I don't know about cancel (not on my system).  There is however lprm.

$ whatis lprm
lprm (1)             - remove jobs from the line printer spooling queue


On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 02:29:41PM -0700, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
> Hey I had to print something today (I never print... ) and I just hooked up a 
> printer (no bother configuing it or anything..) and printed something. well.. 
> ofcourse it sent postscript stuff to the printer, and I realized that I dont 
> know how to kill a print job! sigh... I turned off the printer and did man 
> pages on lp, lpr, lpq. I could view whats in the queue with lpq -a, but didnt 
> find any info in the man pages about killing a print job. so I searched the 
> net and found it was sooo easy (once you know...) it was embarassing! 
> for those of you that havnt tried.... this is what you do.
> lpq -a   (to list print jobs)
> cancel <jobid> (this is the id number listed in lpq -a)
> 
> I love this linux thing... its pretty cool :)
> 
> Jamie
> 
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