Printed Documents - View without reprinting?

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Charlie Tame

W2000 Pro with printer on PC "A".

Can see settings from PCs "A" and "B" no problem and administer from both,
but is there a simple way to view the documents that have been printed
without simply reprinting them?

I might want to keep some and delete others but there's no way to tell the
content from the titles.

(I'm not being lazy but there's often an elegant solution to such things
that's simply been missed, and so far I've missed it :)

Charlie
 
Huh?!?!? View documents that have been printed without printing them
again? If you mean the paper copy, look at the first one that was
printed, otherwise open said document with the application that created
it and look at it that way. Now if I've missed the target completely,
you will need to provide a little more insight as to just what you are
wanting to do.
 
Okay Bob, start>settings>printers etc gives you the chance to open up a
printer and see what has been printed. Sometimes the document title is a
clue, sometimes it isn't. Many things are visible from this view but the
only options are to restart the job or kill it. Occasionally it would be
handy to check what a file is (was) before killing it, but from a remote
location this means reprinting it and physically going to the printer to see
what comes out. I was simply wondering if there's a simple solution to
viewing files that are now in the print spooler as printed. (Not all
originate from one machine).

Charlie
 
The data as it resides in the queue is nothing that could be consider
"human readable". It is just a data string that will be sent to the
printer. The sending computer "creates" that data stream using printer
driver. To see a representative sample as an example, that some document
and "print to file" in the print dialog. Now open said document with a
text editor to "view" the contents.
 
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