Print Job

[Bob Brannon]

Hello,

I am using XP Home, and an HP DeskJet 880C.

Sometimes I have to stop a print job by turning off the printer, because
stopping it from within the printer from control panel is to slow. However,
when I do so I also then cancel printing from the control panel.
Unfortunately, it seems to take 30 minutes for the job to actually cancel
and the icon to disappear from my system tray. I cannot turn the printer on
again before this, because if I do, it will just try to finish the job.

So, is there anyway to get it to cancel quicker? Alternatively, is there
anyway to get the printer shut down in windows quicker?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Go to the Command Prompt and type

net stop spooler

(and hit enter)

This should stop the Print Spooler immediately. Of course, it won't have
much effect if you aren't using the Print Spooler and have changed the
default to Print Directly to Printer.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Bob Brannon]

That did the trick! Thank you very much for your help. I initially put
this message out on 3/6/2004 but no one picked up on it, so thanks again!


--
Regards,
Bob Brannon


Go to the Command Prompt and type

net stop spooler

(and hit enter)

This should stop the Print Spooler immediately. Of course, it won't have
much effect if you aren't using the Print Spooler and have changed the
default to Print Directly to Printer.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Sorry I must have missed it back then... glad it's now fine! (Maybe I was
snowed under by Lexmarks!)

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Bob Brannon]

Hello Cari,

I hope you are still there. If I use your fix it works but found that I
can't print again without starting up the service again from XP services.
And, if I start the spooler to soon it prints the job anyway.

Is there a way around this?

--
Regards,
Bob Brannon


Sorry I must have missed it back then... glad it's now fine! (Maybe I was
snowed under by Lexmarks!)

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

I'm still here.... I think I live in here!

Try stopping the print spooler and then deleting the print job. You will
have to start the Print Spooler manually after stopping it..... that's the
way it usually works. A manual stop followed by a manual start.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Bob Brannon]

Hello Cari,

Sorry to be so late getting back.

This is the process I used: 1) turn off printer, 2) stop spooler, 3) delete
print job, 4) restart spooler, 5) deleted print job printed anyway.

Do I have to wait a certain amount of time before restarting the spooler?


--
Regards,
Bob Brannon


I'm still here.... I think I live in here!

Try stopping the print spooler and then deleting the print job. You will
have to start the Print Spooler manually after stopping it..... that's the
way it usually works. A manual stop followed by a manual start.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Cari \(MS MVP\)]

Enough time to 'lose' the job....which of course will depend on how big it
is and how much has already been sent to the printer's memory. Thankfully
most home inkjets only have tiny RAMs (buffers), but some commercial laser
printers have a lot! The amount of the job already in the memory of the
printer will continue to print.... unless the printer is turned off and the
data 'forgotten' about.

 

[Bob Brannon]

Hello Cari,

One last question. Though your work around is helpful, I found that one
still has to keep the printer off and keep from restarting the spooler,
several minutes, even for only a one page job.

Is there anything else that might work fast! Not that I do this all the
time, but it does happen occasionally and I have been doing some testing.


--
Regards,
Bob Brannon


Enough time to 'lose' the job....which of course will depend on how big it
is and how much has already been sent to the printer's memory. Thankfully
most home inkjets only have tiny RAMs (buffers), but some commercial laser
printers have a lot! The amount of the job already in the memory of the
printer will continue to print.... unless the printer is turned off and the
data 'forgotten' about.