Here is the little file that you can run that will toggle the printer spooler when your computer and printer stop talking to each other.
This tends to happen when you change paper after the |out of paper| message or there is a paper jam you cleared after |paper jam| has displayed.
You’ve fixed the problem but the stupid printer and computer aren’t talking to each other.
The printer spooler never gets a message the problem has cleared and the ‘stuff’ just stays in the queue.
You even see the error message at the top of list but it’s BOGUS. (In this example paper was added to the printer but it still says ‘out of paper’ when you look at the top line of the list. Grrrrrrrrr.)
Make a batch file with the following two lines
Net stop Spooler
Net start Spooler
That’s it, easy peasy.
When you save the file select an option to save as a plain text file. The file needs to end with the .bat extension
example name: print_damn_it.bat
Save the file with any name that works for you, just make sure you make it a batch file (.bat)
Place it on your desktop or in your utilities folder.
You will need to run it with elevated priviledges as administrator.
The easiest way is to hover over the icon, click with the RIGHT mouse button, and select | run as administrator |