Cancelling print

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Jim

Hi,
if I send a document to my printer, HP Deskjet 5550, and subsequently cancel
printing, the document stays in the quey for
days and I cant clear it.How do I fix this....is there a quick way to flush
the que immediatly?
John
 
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Jim said:
Hi,
if I send a document to my printer, HP Deskjet 5550, and
subsequently
cancel printing, the document stays in the quey for
days and I cant clear it.How do I fix this....is there a
quick way to
flush the que immediatly?
John
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You can try starting and stopping the spooler service.
Go to Start -> Run and enter Services.msc in the Open box.
Scroll down to Print Spooler.
Right click on that entry and select Stop from the menu.
As soon as it's stopped, right click again and this time select
Start.

If that doesn't fix the problem you can delete the contents of
this folder.

%SystemRoot%\\System32\spool\PRINTERS

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
I have HP 1402PSC printer on 5 PC network and always got unwanted print jobs
from other PC and got a lot of trouble to remove them.

I think "Wesley Vogel" had provided the following.
1. Copy and paste the following lines to a new Notepad file:

@echo off
echo.
echo Purging the print queue . . .
net stop Spooler
echo Deleting all print jobs . . .
ping localhost -n 4 > nul
del /q %SystemRoot%\system32\spool\printers\*.*
net start Spooler
echo Done!
ping localhost -n 4 > nul


2. Click File - Save
3. Click the "Save as Type" drop down box, choose "All Files".
4. Type a file name like "Cancel Print.bat", without quotes and save it to
Desktop for easy access.

Now, whenever you have unwanted printing jobs pending just double click that
file and all of them will erase automatically.

Thanks to Wesley.

Hope this help, let us know!
 
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