How to Stop printing

[Matthew Gibbins]

And yo was Damien Elmes heard to yodel:
> Linux <linux at sohail-haroon.8m.com> writes:
> 
> > Dear Seniors Hello
> >            I am new user of linux , yesterday i send test print to printer from xwindows , printer is not going to stop print , i delete printer and add again , even restart linux machine too, but there is still printing command in queue plz tell me how to stop print command in xwindows & shell mode and hoe to check print process in shell.
> > i am waiting for u
> > 
> > Sohail Haroon Satti 
> 
> lpq  : list what's queued
> lprm : delete from the queue.
> 
> to stop the printer from printing, delete the queue and then turn off
> the printer (to clear its internal cache).
> 
> of course if you're using one of the new printing systems like CUPS or
> pdq, you'll need to read the docs for them.
> 
  Don't know about the default distro installs, but CUPS has a facility
  to accept BSD commands. This is available as a separate package
  cupsys-bsd on Debian.
  
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