Clearing PRN

[Jim Hawkins]

I'm trying to stop a very long print to a dotmatrix printer
on the parallel port.
The program doesn't make use of the Windows Printers
facility, it simply does a 'copy <myfile> to prn'
I've tried turning both the PC and the printer off, but
it has clearly not emptied the buffer, because when
I turn on again the print resumes!

How can I clear the print buffer ?

Jim Hawkins

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I'm trying to stop a very long print to a dotmatrix printer
on the parallel port.
The program doesn't make use of the Windows Printers
facility, it simply does a 'copy <myfile> to prn'
I've tried turning both the PC and the printer off, but
it has clearly not emptied the buffer, because when
I turn on again the print resumes!

How can I clear the print buffer ?

Jim Hawkins

Yes, the program does make use of the Windows printing
facilities, if only because WinXP won't let it do it any other
way!

Copy the lines below into the file c:\Windows\Purge.bat,
then create a desktop shortcut to c:\Windows\Purge.bat. To
clear the print queue, do this:
1. Turn off the printer.
2. Double-click this shortcut.
3. Turn on the printer.
@echo off
echo.
echo Purging the print queue . . .
net stop Spooler
echo Deleting all print jobs . . .
ping localhost -n 4 > nul
del /q %SystemRoot%\system32\spool\printers\*.*
net start Spooler
echo Done!
ping localhost -n 4 > nul

 

[Jim Hawkins]

Yes, the program does make use of the Windows printing
facilities, if only because WinXP won't let it do it any other
way!

Copy the lines below into the file c:\Windows\Purge.bat,
then create a desktop shortcut to c:\Windows\Purge.bat. To
clear the print queue, do this:
1. Turn off the printer.
2. Double-click this shortcut.
3. Turn on the printer.
@echo off
echo.
echo Purging the print queue . . .
net stop Spooler
echo Deleting all print jobs . . .
ping localhost -n 4 > nul
del /q %SystemRoot%\system32\spool\printers\*.*
net start Spooler
echo Done!
ping localhost -n 4 > nul

Many thanks Pegasus !

Jim Hawkins