why is /var/spool/cups so huge?

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:20:05 -0600 Michael Schwendt
<mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:03:40 -0600, Ranjan wrote:
> 
> > Thanks very much, all! There is no printer attached to this machine
> > anymore so I am not sure where this comes from. (there was a printer
> > attached briefly for which F went and found the drivers to install,
> > however.) In any case, when does this clear? Is there something I have
> > to do beyond putting the line in which I have done (a few hours ago)
> > now.
> 
> What files do you find below /var/spool/cups?
> 
> You've only shown the total size, but not what files are stored
> in there, when they have been created, and whether you print *from*
> that machine to some remote print server.
> -- 

Actually, here is the listing: 

total 4047156
-rw-------. 1 root lp        884 Dec 18 19:58 c00001
drwxrwx--T. 2 root lp       4096 Jan  7 04:42 tmp
-rw-r-----. 1 root lp 4144272668 Jan 13 18:35 00000000

Thanks,
Ranjan