Epson Stylus C82 / Linksys Etherfast EFSP42 Print Server / Linux and Windows 98 / CANCEL PRINT JOB

[Dougie Nisbet]

I've set up my Epson Stylus C82 on a Linksys print server. This means that
I lose a lot of the two-way communication stuff from printer back to PC
(the Windows98 one) and I needed to de-install the print monitor.

I could live with all this for the benefit of having a printer that I can
print to from any PC, Linux or Windows, on the network. Which I can -
after a fashion. The problem is cancelling runaway print jobs.

According to the Epson documentation it is possible to do this using the
buttons on the printer - pressing the top button should cancel the current
page or the print job. Sometimes it cancels the page, but it never clears
the job.

The printserver has a buffer so usually the print job has long disappeared
from the queue of the requesting PC. The printserver has a web interface
and I thought it might be possible to cancel it using that. It tells me
that the printer is busy, but doesn't offer a cancel option.

Cycling power on the printer and the printserver has no effect. Any
suggestions, apart from dropping it on the ground from a large height?

Dougie

 

[Dougie Nisbet]

[ stuff ]

Or perhaps more generally,

Has anyone with a Stylus series found that pressing the 'top button' (the
one with the dustbin/trashcan symbol) cancels the job? This might help me
localise it to the printserver is that's the case.

Dougie

 

[Dougie Nisbet]

[ stuff ]

Or perhaps more generally,

Has anyone with a Stylus series found that pressing the 'top button' (the
one with the dustbin/trashcan symbol) cancels the job? This might help me
localise it to the printserver is that's the case.

Dougie

Finally fixcd it! I found that hurling the printer at high speed at the
wall did cancel the print job although I can find no mention of this
technique in any of the documentation. It does have the downside in that
it presents some problems in queuing up the next print job, but I've
solved this by using that didn't have EPSON written on the front.