Print Spooler

[Zaxdad]

HI All.
My machine developed a new problem last night. We have 4 printers installed.
None are showing up. The print spooler service keeps stopping. I manually
restart it but it stops after a few seconds. I goggled it and tried all the
suggestions I could find with no luck. I tried reinstalling print drivers
with no success. I checked the dependencies and they are all running.
Any input would sure be appreciated.

Howard

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_One.htm

If you missed out on Step 4, all you succeeded in doing is reinstalling the
older corrupted drivers.

 

[Zaxdad]

Hi Cari.
I uninstalled the old drivers. It won't let me install new drivers because
the print spooler won't run. It only runs for a few seconds.The event viewer
said this error has occured 6000 times in the last day. Any other
suggestions would sure be appreciated.
Howard

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Toshiba do not make printers, at least not in the consumer range of
products.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Is this some kind of multifunction device?

 

[Zaxdad]

Hi Cari.
We have 2 single function printers and 1 multi-function device. Also 1
printer on a wireless print server.

Howard

 

[Zaxdad]

Make and models of said printers would really help us!

 

[Zaxdad]

HI Cari.
An HP 3055, HP 8250,HP335, Canon s9000 on a Netgear wireless print server.

Make and models of said printers would really help us!

 

[JimFlagg]

Its a combination of both. If you setup the Toshiba Copier on a 2003 Server
Print Server and you are using Vista which will automatically detect the
printer, the print spooler will fail. Also, you can not uninstall the printer
from the vista box because of some bug in Vista. You have to manualy remove
the driver from the registry under the following key...

navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\version 3

Remove the Toshiba driver and then go to your SERVICES.MSC and restart the
Print Spooler service.

Then add the printer using a local connection and use a TCP/IP port and what
ever the copiers ip address is and it will work fine.

I don't know if it is that the Toshiba drivers do not work on the Print
Server or if it is a bug with Print Servers and Windows Vista. I hope they
fix it soon.

Jim Flagg