growbag wrote:

>
> Restarting cups doesn't get rid of all the queued kobs, and the cups web
> interface tells me that there are no jobs in the queue!
>
> I'm sick of having to press the cancel button on the printer (thank god
> it has one!!), there's about 38 jobs to cancel, each taking <> 30
> seconds each.
>
> Talk about bloody annoying
>
> PS I tried to get help from the cupsd and cupsctl --help, but couldn't
> find anything useful

The Printer object allows job cancellation and works pretty well. One
issue: if the job has started spooling to the printer, you still have to
cancel at the printer. I've seen 2-3 jobs spooled while the printer was
out of paper. Fill the paper tray and there it goes...

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Will Honea