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spooled job reside in windows\system32\spool\printers. The print job is
formatted for the old device. Some old devices are compatible with newer
devices but the odds are 50% that this can work.
If the old printer is not an HP you will most likely get lots of garbage
when you send the doc formatted for device 1 to device 2.
There are a couple of ways to do this, you can skip this first part if you
do not wish to save a copy for multiple attempts.
open a cmd windows
Start / Run / cmd
at the command prompt
net stop spooler
md c:\newspool
copy %windir%\system32\spool\printers c:\newspool
net start spooler
Open the printers folder and open the new printer/ properties/ Port
note the Port name
Open the old printer / properties / Port and change the port to the port
used by the new printer
if the job on the old printer is in an error state say printing to LPT1 and
you have now changed the port to USB002, there will be at least a 90 sec
time period before the job can get rescheduled to the other port. If it
does not happen right click the job and select restart.
If you get a bunch of garbage on the new printer the job is formatted in a
PDL (print description language) that the new device does not understand.
--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
;kbhowto]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto
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"Terry" <Terry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B1BA8F76-111A-4921-8120-93354F47E602@microsoft.com...
>I accidentally printed a project to my old printer after having installed a
> new HP printer. How do I get the print job from the old printer to the
> new
> one? PS. The project cannot be reprinted. Where do print jobs await
> despooling? HELP
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