Just saw this on Lifehacker and had the occasion to test it with excellent results.
If you are a Windows user you will have come across the situation were a print job fails but you are unable to remove it from the queue, this results in all the other jobs backing up and sometimes even a reboot will not get rid of the stuck job.
The manual way to fix this is as documented on the download site :
The Manual Process to Purge Stalled Print Jobs
- Make sure all print jobs are complete and that no new print jobs are being submitted.
- Double-click Services in the Printer Control Panel and stop the "Print Spooler" service.
- Open the C:WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SPOOL\PRINTERS in My Computer.
- Delete all files located in this folder. Files in the Printers are named xxxx.spl, xxxx.shd where xxxx is a hexadecimal number. Files with .shd and .spl extensions are printer files.
- Double-click Services in the Control Panel and start the "Print Spooler" services.
- Re-print any print jobs.
Just install it and it will check the print queue and if it finds any stuck jobs it will automate the removal with a minimum of fuss. It is also portable so you can include it on your USB stick of tools.
Get it here
Linux users should check /var/spool/cups or var/spool/lpd for stuck print jobs and delete them accordingly.
Mac OSX users can do " cancel -a - " from a terminal (without the quotes). More info here
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