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Re: resetting Canon printer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Smith)
Mon Nov 9 22:23:44 1998
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:37:41 -0500
From: Fred Smith <fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
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In-Reply-To: <98110913215600.03651@belvdere>; from David E. Fox on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 01:18:05PM -0800
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On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 01:18:05PM -0800, David E. Fox wrote:
> Hi. I figure this is somewhat off topic, but there are people on the list with
> this particular printer (BJC-250) or similar.
>
> Anyhow, I've recently noticed something strange. I can't seem to clear the
> printer or reset it. I ended up printing something to the wrong print
> queue, which gave only garbage, but even after removing it and turning the
> printer on and off a few times, I just had to wait until it finished printing
> the existing buffer contents, which unfortunately wasted a bit of
> paper.
I've done stuff like that too. Even rebooting the system didn't flush
the print job. Upon investigation I found a daemon which owned a copy of
ghostscript which was being restarted every time I rebooted the box.
never did figure out what the mechanism was, though.
>
> Now, it's printing OK, but everything is coming out in some awful pink color
> instead of black. And this is likely because something in the buffer
> previously set the color to pink, and now I can't get it to go back.
not even if you power down the printer?
Do you have a Windoze box you can plug it into long enough to enter the
Canon setup utility to reset it to some reasonable values?
Maybe the color cartridge is out of green ink so all that's left is
the magenta (R + B) ??
Fred
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