Stop Printer

[Trevor L.]

Some time ago, I saw a post on how to stop a printer. An icon was written to
the desktop and clicking on it would stop the printer, pause it and start
again.

Can anyone tell me what this might consist of?

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[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

You can just stop the Printer Spooler by typing Net Stop Spooler at the
Start Run or the Command Prompt.

 

[Trevor L.]

Thank you.
That was mainly what I was looking for. I can put it into a .bat file and
create a shortcut to it.

However, I seem to recall that I need to clear the buffers as well and the
code I recall had some extra statements to pause for several seconds and
then restart the printer

Would this be something like:
pause 10
net start printer
?

And would this clear the printer buffers?

 

[Mat]

Try this

@echo off
net stop "print spooler"
del /q "%SystemRoot%\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.*"
net start "print spooler"
ping localhost -n 5 > nul

I got it from a MS newsgroup a while ago.

HTH