Printer Problem

[Waleed Hamra]

On 05/19/2012 10:53 PM, Bill Vance wrote:
> 
> Howdy folks;
> 
> Ok, running 10.04 with a relatively new, "HP Officejet
> 6500A Plus."  I'm trying to print out a huge-mongous
> file.  For the curious, its the, "StdLib Reference
> Manual", for the HLA Assembler.  The stack of paper is
> allready well over 4 inches tall.  I can handle it when
> it runs out of paper, as the printer is rather well
> behaved about pausing for that.  Whats getting my goat
> is when the cartridge starts running out of ink, its
> rather difficult to be right on top of it, as it very
> slowly fades out to finally blank pages.  I have a 1/2"
> stack of now useless paper left over from the last time.
> 
> Ok, so here's the question.  Does kde, (or anything
> else for that matter), have a printer util that can
> cause a printer to pause in the middle of a print job,
> and then let you back up in the file to before things
> started getting flakey, and restart the print job from
> there?  After I've changed the ink cartridge during
> the pause, that is.
> 
> It seems to me that swaping out ribbons and cartridges
> etc. would be such a common place sort of thing, that
> someone somewhere would have created something like
> that, but who/what/where?
> 

not sure i know of any way, but how about pulling the paper out? that'll
cause it to pause. if it has a drawer, or some sort of door, most
printers will pause if you open them, and display a warning asking you
to close the door back.
of course, this is assuming you're beside the printer, and watching when
things start getting flakey.


-- 
Waleed K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems



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