stop printing

[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 window is to slow. However,
when I do so I also then cancel printing from the printer window.
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.

 

[Michael]

it seems it is a driver problem,i have had kind of a
similar probels before where it would take a very long
time to the job to get spooled, but uninstalling and re-
installing the driver fixed this, it might work for this
too.

 

[Bob Brannon]

I tried that too, but for this printer and system, it did not help.

it seems it is a driver problem,i have had kind of a
similar probels before where it would take a very long
time to the job to get spooled, but uninstalling and re-
installing the driver fixed this, it might work for this
too.