How can you stop printing (Brother MFC-L2700DW laser printer)?

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Sometimes I start the printer and forget to select 'this page only', so it starts spewing out
printed pages from the entire 100-page document. Does anyone know how to stop this before I am knee-deep in unnecessary prints? The Brother FAQs and manual are silent on this.
 

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I’m not familiar with the MFC-L2700DW, but if it resembles my Brother HL-L5000D in this regard, then you just press the ‘CANCEL’ button on the front panel. That stops the printing job after one sheet or two.
Now, if that model doesn’t has a ‘Cancel’ button, forget what I wrote.

@stratman, the solution of your link works fine for Canon inkjet printers, but not on my Brother HL-L5000D laser, because the driver first sends the printing job to the buffer of the printer, which doesn’t starts printing until the whole document has been stored in the memory of the machine, Therefore, if you open the Windows menu when the printer is already churning pages, then it’s too late, the buffer has been cleared and Windows will show no printing jobs to cancel.
It’s quite possible that the driver of the Brother MFC-L2700DW behaves likewise, so this wouldn’t be a solution for @Bradscopegems.

No idea how it is on Mac computers.

Of course, he can always stop the printer in the blunt way, unplugging the cable from the power outlet. :D
 

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if you open the Windows menu when the printer is already churning pages, then it’s too late
Your printer may have 128 MB RAM.

https://support.brother.com/g/b/spec.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hll5000d_us_eu_as

OP's printer has up to 32 MB RAM. Maybe it is 32, maybe it is less.

https://support.brother.com/g/b/spec.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcl2700dw_us_eu_as

https://printerdrivers.com/brother-mfc-l2700dw-driver/

A large enough print job may require OP's RAM to need more than one buffering cycle to complete the task. Since your RAM is much larger than OP's you may be able to push all the data in one cycle to the printer's RAM and therefore you do not see buffering in progress to stop the printer via the method posted.
 

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You're a tireless web explorer..:)
Thanks for the info. I had no idea of how much RAM had my printer.
In fact, the amount of RAM required by printing jobs, depends on the number and size of the pages but also the resolution set in the driver. Most of the times I use 600dpi. because 1200dpi takes much longer to start printing but, when it does, the printing job on windows has already disappeared, so I gather than 128mb of RAM are enough for large documents at 1200dpi. 32Mb probably will be enough for a sizeable number of pages at 600dpi.
 
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Thanks for the info. I had no idea of how much RAM had my printer.
300 dpi is usually more than adequate for just normal text printing, but 600 dpi does look a lot sharper with good quality halftones, and 1200 dpi is just a total waste of toner..

Your laser printer must fill its buffer first before it will start to print, and as it prints it continues by dumping and then refilling the buffer, if it doesn’t have enough ram to accommodate the full document, you will sometimes see it stop for a few minutes in the middle of a print run.

But post scripts printers must have sufficient ram to start any document, they simply won’t print at all… most network printers will do the very same, not enough ram, then no document printed..
 

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300 dpi is usually more than adequate for just normal text printing, but 600 dpi does look a lot sharper with good quality halftones, and 1200 dpi is just a total waste of toner..
Thanks Debbie Downer. You must be a lot of fun at parties. :(

Your laser printer must fill its buffer first
Technically incorrect. If the print job's total data spooled to the RAM is less than the total capacity of the memory, do you wait for another print job to be sent in order to fill up the rest of the RAM so that printing commences?

No.

Otherwise, you explained it better than I.

post scripts printers
How many use PostScript outside some pro's (you) that take advantage of it or a few nerds that probably don't need it or set by guess?

How many even understand the difference between PostScript and PCL6?

Do we know what emulation the printer is using? Here's the choice's for OP's printer:

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@The Hat : On my laser printer, higher resolution pages need more memory and time to process but 300, 600 or 1200dpi makes no difference on the amount of toner consumed. Overall density is the same.
Same for inkjet printers, in general. The exception is 'draft' mode for text when, to speed up the job, the carriage travels at twice the normal speed, firing the whole set of nozzles every 1/300" instead of 1/600, for instance. Thus, the resulting print is visibly less dense than in normal or high quality modes. Black text looks like dark grey.
 
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but 300, 600 or 1200dpi makes no difference on the amount of toner consumed
I’ve tried it and yes it uses far more toner.. This has nothing to do with inkjets..

If the print job's total data spooled to the RAM is less than the total capacity of the memory, do you wait for another print job

If a print job used less ram, then the printer will start, because that’s the last command given in the spooler..
 
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