[gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

[Robert Persson]

My (parallel port laser) printer started spewing garbage (i.e. pcl data as 
text - a few characters per sheet) as a result, I think, of a loose cable.

Trouble is I can't stop it. I cleared the print jobs. Even stopped cups. Tried 
to rmmod parport_pc and lp, but was refused. Tried pressing the stop and 
reset buttons on the printer many times. Nothing doing. The only thing that 
stops the flow is disconnecting the parallel cable.

I'm about to reboot, hoping that that will do the trick. But surely there's a 
way to stop the diarrhoea without rebooting, isn't there?
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Robert Persson

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