Can't delete task from printer queue

In addition to leroydouglas and vikingosx excellent responses, and since you are a novice at Terminal commands, after you type lprm in Terminal, you need to press the return key to make it execute. If that gives you an error, then type sudo lprm and when prompted, enter your account login password. This is a much easier method than removing your printers and re-adding them should this happen again in the future.

MarinMusicLover wrote:

Message: You must be an administrator to delete this job.

You can from the Terminal.app cancel a job, —Remove the current print request to the default printer, copy and paste:

lprm

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Depending on how much memory the printer has, the print job may be in its buffer and the operating system won't be able to cancel it. Or…

Launch the Terminal application. Type the command in lowercase at the Terminal prompt, and quit Terminal.

lprm



That command removes the current job from the printer queue provided the first paragraph has not yet happened.

I am using an Administrator account and no option appears that allows me to enter an admin username and PW. The problem isn't deleting specific jobs. The problem is I shouldn't have to use terminal every time I need to delete a job.

I finally decided to run Disk Utility - Disk First Aid and it worked!

The command-line lprm command is owned by root and in group wheel so does not need any sudo enticements.

Roger that! Thanks for the clarification.