I have found that the easiest way of cancelling a print job is to remove the
paper. My printer (Epson Stylus D120) then reports "Paper not Loaded
Properly" and gives the option to cancel the print job. This works
immediately every time.{:-)
This facility is not however available on my HP DeskJet 610C printer and I
then have Dilwyn's problem (and another tree or two are felled!!) {:-(
John Gilpin.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
Except in my case, trying this failed to do anything. Every time I
switched back on, more paper with one or two text characters on it.
Seems (as Paul's email implied) you have to resort to stopping the Windoze
spooler, then getting rid of any spooler files in the folder indicated in
the script, which is pretty well what the 4 line script I sent does.
I've saved that script as a little command file I can run in Windoze now
next time I goof like that...
I wonder if Marcel knows how much pain his work can cause Windoze? Of
course, QPC didn't do anything wrong, neither did Windoze for that matter.
My fault sending an Epson screen dump to a Hewlett Packard printer :-(
--
Dilwyn Jones
----- Original Message -----
From: "P Witte" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] stop printing
The first thing I do is remove the paper from the input tray. Then cancel
the print job in Windoze. Then switch the printer on and off until its
print buffer has emptied. Eventually all parts of the chain error out or
give up in exhaustion. The details depend on your OS version, printer and
setup, of course.
Its a horrible business. Cant think why M$ and the printer makers havent
been able to find a solution to this in all these years, but I suppose
they dont really mind: Our pain is their gain.
Per
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I accidentally started an enourmous SDUMP printout from QPC and can't
stop it!
I've used PAR_ABORT and PAR_CLEAR in QPC2 and tried deleting the print
job in Windoze. No joy - it looks like Winodze will only stop it at the
end of the print job. Closing down Windoze and switching off the printer
just makes it resume when the computer's restarted.
I forgot I was sending an SDUMP print for Epsons to a HP printer which
ain't Epson compatible. So it prints every byte of "graphics" data as
text, about 2 or 3 characters per page. At this rate the house will be
buried in paper. Anyone know how to force Windoze to stop???
Help! (Put Windoze on pause for now, but it will stop anything else
printing until I can clear it)
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