Deleting Completed Print Jobs in Mac OS X 10.8 ?

How can the job list of completed print jobs be deleted ?
The job list fills up with lots of completed and canceled (a 10.7./10.8 bug) jobs and many jobs are added multiple times after a time in the list untill closed and reopened again.
This makes it nearly impossible to find a specific job.
Thanks.

This isn't really a good solution, but the only way I found was to delete and re-add the printer. I didn't see anything obvious in the prefs files. Maybe send feedback to Apple about this?

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On both my HP Officejet 7410 and Xerox Phaser 6200, after printing I am unable to delete the completed jobs from the Print Queue. The Delete functions are available, they just do not seem to work. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

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It would be easier to open up a Terminal and use lpq to show jobs and lprm to remove the jobs.
Something is wrong here. Completed jobs should not be in the queue and do not need to be deleted. I would be taking a look at the printer error log. Use Console.app or open up a Terminal and look at /var/log/cups/error_log.
Most MacIntosh users don't need and shouldn't use Terminal or type a command line instruction to do anything. If they did, they would go back to Windows, or why not just use some flavor of Linux for free? Terminal is there for those that want it, but none of my clients use a Mac because of it's Unix core.
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Want to play with the print server settings and be able to reset to the default with a click? http://localhost:631/admin?op=config-server
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I wish I could give proper credit to whom educated me, but I don't remember who it was. Here is an excerpt of an email thread or discussions post thread that I retained that might be helpful to you:
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Delete "Cancel Print Job" pop up

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