Printing Problems in Jaguar

Supa troopa

Supa troopa

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Ok, I am a pretty n00b at MAC OS X, but i do understand terminal due to Linux. Although they are not the same, I might be able to understand some "complex" answers. Her is my situation:

I have 15 MAC OS X machines in a classroom and they all run OS X Jaguar, but I am not sure what version. Recently, the MACS have taken control of themselves and started printing to a network color printer non-stop. I am not sure if someone went through and did something or what. the printer is a HP ColorJet 4500. I ran into a problem with my linux machine printing a bunch of characters such as happy faces and number signs. It might be in issue with the hpijs driver, but I don't understand why they are printing for no aparent reason. I was also wondering if there was some sort of terminal command to cancel these jobs. I know that with linux, there is an IP for a CUPS manager, but it is not the same for MAC OS X, I think, I can't really remember it. If anyone can get back to me with this I would appreciate it. Thanks a lot. ::sleepy::
 
There is the Print Center application in /Applications/Utilities but if nothing shows up in there as printing then you can get to CUPS in your webbrowser from the same machine you want to check : http://127.0.0.1:631/
 
I tried to check the CUPS page, and it says that it is an invalid website. I heard yesterday that you had to be in as root to access it, but I can get to it without root access in my house. I am not exactly sure if it is CUPS, I know there is a CUPS file in the /etc folder, but I don't kno what type of file it is. Any ideas?
 
You might have to be an administrator, but definately not only root because I can get to it fine from my account on my computer.

I think Jaguar only uses CUPS to print, so it would have to be that.

Nothing shows up in the Print Center? You could try deleting the printer from the Macs and see if they stop printing.
 
I did delete the printers from the printer, but that was because we went through a ton of paper in 1 day. But now I have to re-install them because I could not really quit jobs, because it was not showing any jobs, but it was printing. Also, the hpijs driver is bad I think, so if I change that driver, it should fix the HP problem right? Atleast it did on my linux machine at my house but I need to search for the file at the HP, but I do not have the root password, the CSC for the district does. I am just a guru in the school on these system types. So I am hoping I can do this all without getting the root password.
 
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