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>Please don’t try to print it. Sounds like a print bomb waiting to happen. Last time I had a printer it was next to impossible to cancel a print job on Windows
by 0134340 3y ago
>Please don’t try to print it.
Sounds like a print bomb waiting to happen. Last time I had a printer it was next to impossible to cancel a print job on Windows. Back when people had wifi printers that were open or ill-secured, those were fun times.
- matheusmoreira 3y ago> it was next to impossible to cancel a print job on Windows It's still impossible. The only reliable method I've found consists of turning the printer off and then deleting the print job in the queue. Only way to get Windows to actually delete it. Doesn't work unless the printer is sitting right next to me, of course. I have no idea why this is so hard.
- askvictor 3y agoAnd sometimes windows won't delete it from the print queue as it can't talk to the printer. Fun times.
- tazjin 3y agoSome ~12 years ago, I was debugging POS integration with a receipt printer and accidentally sent garbage postscript to the receipt printer, which printed it out verbatim. Stopping it was impossible. Power cycling that printer had absolutely no effect. It wrote the unfinished print job to some kind of persistent memory, and by god it was going to finish it. It went through something like 2 1/2 rolls of receipt paper (yes it dutifully awaited the new rolls and then just continued) and due to the thermal printing process it smelled very odd, and I had quite a few metres of raw Postscript afterwards to decorate a wall with.
- foreigner 3y agoOnly slightly more reliable method: unplug the printer and throw the computer out the window.
- kome 3y agowhen i read > Please don’t try to print it. my first reaction has been: you are not my mom. >:-)
- bombcar 3y agoJust click “scale to fit on one page”.