Pausing HP2430n Printing During Non-office Hours

[Marty]

We have an HP Laserjet 2430n Printer with built-in JetDirect. I need a way
to automatically stop the print from printing during non-office hours. I
would need to resume printing manually. We have motion sensors in the office
and when the office alarm is set and someone prints to the printer during
off hours using remote desktop, it sets the alarm off and the police show
up. Everyone is told not to print to that printer when using remote desktop
but because that printer is set as the default print, just clicking the
print icon in any office program send the print job automatically to the
print. We would need to manually resume printing because if Monday was a
holiday and it resumed automatically, it would set the alarm off.

Any Suggestions,
-Marty

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Talk to your alarm provider and see it they can rig something to deactivate
power to the device when the alarm is active.

If the printer is shared from an XP or greater machine, you can schedule a
task to pause the printer everyday at a specific time

use the vbs scripts in system32

prnqctl -z -p printername

If the sharing machine is Win2k this solution will not work.


--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

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[Ross Presser]

If the sharing machine is Win2k, you could still use AutoHotkey to
send keystrokes to the printer to pause it.

Or -- maybe a bit drastic -- you could schedule "NET STOP SPOOLER" and
"NET START SPOOLER" to shut down printing completely.

Talk to your alarm provider and see it they can rig something to deactivate
power to the device when the alarm is active.

If the printer is shared from an XP or greater machine, you can schedule a
task to pause the printer everyday at a specific time

use the vbs scripts in system32

prnqctl -z -p printername

If the sharing machine is Win2k this solution will not work.


--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

We have an HP Laserjet 2430n Printer with built-in JetDirect. I need a way
to automatically stop the print from printing during non-office hours. I
would need to resume printing manually. We have motion sensors in the
office and when the office alarm is set and someone prints to the printer
during off hours using remote desktop, it sets the alarm off and the
police show up. Everyone is told not to print to that printer when using
remote desktop but because that printer is set as the default print, just
clicking the print icon in any office program send the print job
automatically to the print. We would need to manually resume printing
because if Monday was a holiday and it resumed automatically, it would set
the alarm off.

Any Suggestions,
-Marty