The printing tmp dir does not get cleaned.

I've been printing some heavy stuff on the mac and i've founded that suddenly 20 Gigs were gone. Searching where did the space went, i've found a lot of stuff in /var/spool/cups and in /var/spool/cups/tmp. The first thing is easy to clean, just need to clean the history of printing, but the tmp does not. Is there a simple way to clean it? The "sudo rm dir" is not a wonderful option, but works. Thanks in advance.
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What kind of printer are you using? And are these temporary files left after every job or just sometimes? Thanks for any more information you can provide.

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