Print job stalls in printer queue while printing and then ..

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From the command prompt:

net stop spooler
net start spooler

It doesn't solve your problem but it does save rebooting.

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Tony Edgecombe
www.frogmorecs.com/ng
Software for printing


"Renee" <rr@invalid.org> wrote in message
news 7otc.25484$0X2.836197@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> While reviewing previous newsgroup posts I've noticed that many others
> experience the same problem I have where the print job stops printing and
> just sits there stuck. Everyone seems to be using different printers, so
the
> problem doesn't seem to be printer specific.
>
> It happens to me while trying to print more than one large photo layout
> file, about 10 Mb each. I'm printing from a laptop that's connected to a
> desktop computer over a wireless lan. I use Windows XP and I have an HP
PSC
> 2175 printer only a couple of months old. My printer is set to Spool Print
> Jobs and Start Printing Immediately.
>
> If I try to delete the stalled print job, it says "Deleting - Printing"
and
> doesn't do anything else. I can't get rid of the job, and can't print
> anything else until it's gone. I finally have been able to delete the job
by
> doing the following, in this exact order:
>
> - Turn off printer, pull out it's power cord, pull out it's USB cable.
> - Turn off desktop.
> - Turn off laptop.
> - Turn on desktop.
> - After it's booted up, plug in printer's power cord, then plug in it's
USB
> cable.
> - Turn on laptop.
>
> If I try steps in any other order, then the print job (deleting) keeps
> appearing in the printer queue on both the desktop and laptop computers.
>
> Now I have been working around this problem by printing one page at a
time.
> I wait until it thoroughly prints out, and then start the next page. This
is
> getting tedious. There must be another way.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what I can try next?
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions
>
> Renee
>
>