Printer - Cancel all Documents

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I have a printer connected to the LPT1 port & it works fine.
But if I want to do "Cancel all documents" it takes forever to do it.
Is there any way to make it quicker?
Any help would be appreciated.
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donwb

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Thanks "byte"
Yes it works. It does mean you can do nothing else while the document is
printing - although that's still preferable (for me) to waiting 10 years
before I used your suggestion to stop spooling.

"Byte" wrote:

> Start/Control Panel/Printer and Faxes
> Click the printer you are using and under Printer click Cancel all Documents.
> Now your printer has a spooler (memory chip) to which the document has
> been spooled so when you restart or reboot your pc it may still want to print
> the original document. One way to clear this spooler is to unplug or shutdown
> the printer and then reconnect. You can also go in to the printer properties/
> advanced tab to untick "spool print documents so program finishes later"
>
> "donbowyer" wrote:
>
> > I have a printer connected to the LPT1 port & it works fine.
> > But if I want to do "Cancel all documents" it takes forever to do it.
> > Is there any way to make it quicker?
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > --
> > donwb