[ale] HOW2 stop printer after printing has begun ?

Courtney Thomas cc.thomas at earthlink.net
Sat Jun 10 20:50:15 EDT 2006


James,

That must be it 'cause the printer is a Panasonic KXP-3626.
Thank you for clarifying.

Courtney


James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 16:57 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
>>Mike,
>>
>>I can turn the printer power off indefinitely and when it's repowered, 
>>it starts printing where it left off. That's why I said I assume the 
>>spooling is from ram.
>>
>>Any other thoughts  :-)
> 
> 
> It's lengthy but this sequence works to clear out the buffers
> everywhere.
> 
> Power off the printer
> Unplug the parallel port cable
> Stop cups (or lpd)
> Unload the lpt kernel module (it has a buffer!)
> Plug in the parallel port
> Power on the printer
> Start cups (or lpd) which will reload the lpt module
> 
> I have had issues with unloading the lpt module with the cable still
> plugged in on some models of Panasonic printers. Even with the power
> off, some printers will acknowledge the existence of a device on that
> parallel port. That will block the module unload as it does still have
> data to send. I have not found a way to flush the module buffer with out
> unloading it or re-writing it to add a user-space hook to listen to kill
> command.
> 
> 
>>Courtney
> 
> 
>>>You know, I thought I was the last person in the world to be using a 
>>>dot-matrix printer... :)
> 
> 
> I have a dot-matrix for tax forms :)
> 
>>>	- Mike
>>>
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