[PCWorks] Stopping a print job
- From: David Grossman <dgrossman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:21:09 +0200
Did you ever have the annoying and frustrating experience of trying to stop
a print job and the system balked? Of course you did.
It happened to me again about an hour ago.
I meant to print just page 1 of a long document, but clicked on the default
button (page range: all) by mistake. I then yanked the remaining paper out
of the tray.
Of course, I got an "out of paper" message, so I tried everything possible:
I tried to cancel that print job
I tried to cancel all print jobs (even though there was only one)
I tried to remove the paper and reinsert it
I tried to fill the paper tray so that it would sense that it had paper
I turned the printer off and on (several times, after waiting while it was
off)
I restarted the computer
I tried to print another document. It wouldn't print, of course, but I was
able to cancel that print job.
I finally did kill the job by going into Services, Print Spooler. However,
I'm sure there's a better way. After all, the average user would not be
expected to know about the print spooler.
Is there a good way to stop those annoying print jobs?
David Grossman
Using Win7 and a cheapo HP P1005 (but it's happened on many other printers
as well).
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