Where's the print que

[pursley1 at netscape.net]

Mark Knoop wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 06:20 -0500, pursley1 at netscape.net wrote:
>   
>> Hello all.  I figured I'd better add this note.
>>
>> The only reason that I brought this up was that I sent several documents 
>> to the printer and they didn't print nor did I get any kind of error 
>> messages.  That's when I noticed that there were no options for me to 
>> quickly open a listing of the print que.  I do know how to go into the 
>> que manually via the text prompt but was wondering why I couldn't from 
>> Xwindows.  BTW: I still never found out why the docs never printed as 
>> they vanished from the que without an error or any output of any kind - 
>> yet still another mystery to be investigated later.
>>     
>
> Another idea... something which has occasionally frustrated me is that
> the print dialog remembers options from previous print jobs. On one
> occasion I couldn't work out why nothing had printed until I realised
> that it was printing only page 5 (of a 3 page document) and hence doing
> nothing (silently). 
>
> Perhaps check that the "Print Pages" options (on the General tab) and
> the options on the Page Setup tab (e.g. Only print: Even sheets) are as
> you expect and will actually generate some output.
>   
I check the print options every time I print as a habit to prevent me 
from wasting time, paper and ink.  When I tried it again (the 4th time) 
and it printed, I hadn't changed anything then either.

Bradley