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Serious Printer Problems at our school, how cool is OS X ???
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Ok guys
we have some serious printer problems at our school. we are having a HP 5 SI/MX. Well anyway some eeediots here are sendin 700 MB files to the printer and it takes hours to get them out of there. Well in Windows XP you can see the Printer Queue. On Mac OS X i can't is there any way so that i can see how many jobs are there??? and is there maybe even a way to hack it so that i can delete jobs if people are bit stupid?
thanks
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Originally posted by b3t4:
Ok guys
we have some serious printer problems at our school. we are having a HP 5 SI/MX. Well anyway some eeediots here are sendin 700 MB files to the printer and it takes hours to get them out of there. Well in Windows XP you can see the Printer Queue. On Mac OS X i can't is there any way so that i can see how many jobs are there??? and is there maybe even a way to hack it so that i can delete jobs if people are bit stupid?
The printer queue that you see in Windows XP is the queue of documents that Windows has ready to send to the printer. It has nothing to do with the printer, and as in Mac OS X you'd print directly to the printer it would never see Window's queue of files. Basically after each print job it's a race to see what computer can connect to the printer and start sending a new job.
- proton
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Originally posted by b3t4:
and is there maybe even a way to hack it so that i can delete jobs if people are bit stupid?
Walk up to the printer, take it offline and turn it off and then back on. Or you cancel the job at the printer if it has that option.
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Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally posted by proton:
The printer queue that you see in Windows XP is the queue of documents that Windows has ready to send to the printer.
Actually, if you're printing to a networked printer on Windows, you can see all the jobs that are queued up from anyone on the network if you open that particular printer's queue. Very handy in knowing who to go yell at for bogarting the printer. 
But as proton said, OS X doesn't show you the other files waiting to be printed to that networked printer, just the files you sent. If a print job is clogging up the printer, you're only option is to go reset the printer...
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