Move printer document from 1 que to another

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I have a number of printers setup, I am and administrator for the laptop and
would like to move some documents from 1 print que to another.
Is it possible and if so how.

Thanks in advance
Dean
 
I don't believe you can do that, for once a document is in queue it has
been spooled to that printer...period.
 
Hi Dean,

not automaticly.

You can try the following, if it's not a special print job (e.g. different
device modes for the printed pages)
and both jobs have the same format (both RAW with compatible printers or
both EMF)
1.) Stop the destination printer
2.) Print something short to the destination printer (a test page for
example)
3.) Findout the name of the spool-file generated (extension "spl") for the
new job. It is normaly located in "system32\spool\printers"
4.) copy the source spl-File to the destination-file and continue
destination printer.

If you decide not to delete print jobs after printing, the filenames of the
spoolfiles are identical to the jobid padded with zeros.
Unfortunatly you can't determine the jobid in the printer queue. Look at
file dates or use third party products.

If your source-file is spooled in EMF-Format you can try splviewer from
www.lvbprint.de
(http://www.lvbprint.de/bin/current/SplViewSetup.exe), but sorry it's still
only in german language available.
After installating it, type "ctrl+j" to view all print jobs in all local
printer queues, or open the source spl-file directly.
Then print it to the destination printer (you can use the freeware-version
to print document up to 300 pages)

Dieter
 
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