It is not an HP conspiracy

. Firstly, there is a cancel button (the "X"
button) on the printer which can be used to cancel a job in progress. If you
are running Windows 95 or 98 you may have an issue with jobs that get "stuck"
if you try to cancel them from Windows. As far as I know this is an OS issue,
not a printer issue. Windows XP has corrected this behavior.
You might try the following to cancel a print job from the computer if you do
not want to use the printer's cancel button:
1. Select "pause printing"
2. Select "use printer offline"
3. Select "delete all jobs"
then put the printer back online and uncheck the "pause printing" button.