[NTLUG:Discuss] OT - purge memory - HP5L printer

[Leroy Tennison]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> Terry wrote:
>
>> Once it's sent to the printer, it's too late, and that's the only
>> advice the manual gives is to delete the print job from your
>> computer's queue which is no  help - I can unplug it for hours and it
>> still tries to print the job when I plug it back in, (because it's in
>> the printer's memory),
> I strongly disagree.  Power cycling the printer removes the print job 
> from the printer's memory.  SOMETHING is queuing the print job.  You 
> must track that down and remove the print job from the queue.  In my 
> case, I had my print cap spooling to a jet direct box.  I must power 
> off the printer, AND power off the jet direct box.  My server does not 
> show anything queued..yet the print job will keep coming out of the 
> printer until  I remove the SOURCE of the print job -- the Jetdirect 
> (or whatever other print spooler may be between your initial print 
> queue and the print).
>
> Go back to your search and find out where the queuing is going on.
>
>> and I don't guess there's anything I can do
>> about it.  It's what I get for using this old printer.  Newer, more
>> modern ones will probably dump the job if you cut the power,
> They ALL do.  I know of NO cases where a printer uses NVRAM for it's 
> print job.  That would seem cost prohibitive.
>
>> It's just that once in a while me or my computer messes up and sends
>> something to it that it or I shouldn't, (sometimes it's a large amount
>> of unrecoginizable characters), and I have to run a bunch of paper
>> throgh it and waste a lot of paper and ink and apparently there's
>> nothing I can do about it.
>> - thanks anyway.
>>
>>  
>>
> Don't give up!!
> "Never quit, never surrender!" - quote from the 'historical records'
>
I was going to reply with basically the same points.  One quick test: 
Power off the printer, unplug the data cable and power it back on.  If 
nothing starts printing then you know that something else is holding the 
job.