Computer holds print in queue and will only send to printer when computer is restarted.
Without more details, I am going to assume that you only have one printer installed on your computer, which should lead to an easy solution.
Printer Queue
The printer queue is the temporary place where all of the documents that are selected for printing go prior to actually being printed. The printer queue can become bogged down and create a problem such as you are suggesting. Fortunately, this has an easy fix. Perhaps you noticed jobs in the print queue taking forever to complete or refusing to stop printing when you clicked cancel. Whatever the reason behind your error, I think that it would be nice to avoid having to reboot each time you want to print something.
Stopping the Print Spooler
The term print spooler refers to the process of transferring the data from its present location to a temporary area where it can wait to be printed. If the print spooler service gets jammed up for whatever reason, the best way to deal with it is to stop it. These directions should solve the problem.
To stop the print spooler, follow these directions:
Open the Control Panel and select Administrative Tools. Next, select Services. You will need to look through the list of services in order to locate the one for print spooler.
Troubleshooting Print Spooler: Restart the Service for a Lexmark Printer
On the chance that the above solution did not work and you have a Lexmark printer, you can try the following directions to fix the problem.
Click the Start button. Click Run. Type services.msc and click OK. Locate Print Spooler in the list of services, right-click the service, and then left-click start. Locate Lexbce Server in the list of services, right-click the service, and left-click start. Locate RPC services in the list of services, right-click the service, and then left-click start
If you get an error while doing this, you should follow these steps:
Right-click Print Spooler. Select Properties. Click on the Recovery. Change all 3 drop-down boxes to indicate “Restart the Service.” Make sure the two text boxes underneath have a “1″ in them. Click OK until you are back at the Services window. Close that window. Perform the same for Lexbce Server and for RPC services. Restart RPC services and Lexbce Server. The final step is to restart the Print Spooler service. Print a test page first and look to make sure that it prints.
Susan Keenan | June 18th, 2009
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