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how long does it take to cancel a printing job?
after i allready start printing, i decided to cancel it so i choose "cancel
printing" but still the printing didn't stop. it stoped only after 12 pages (1) when the printing was almost complete. why did it take so long to stop it? shoudn't it be immediate? thx. |
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how long does it take to cancel a printing job?
This can be very frustrating sometimes (even when you understand why). The
'printing' you are canceling is the process of formatting the document for printing and sending it to the printer, which has its own memory to keep the pages in until physical printing is done. When you cancel, the cancel command is not sent to the printer so it carries on printing whatever is in its memory. To cancel the physical print you have to use the printer dialog (via Start Printers, or Start Settings Printers, or similar depending on operating system) -- Enjoy, Tony "gz12" wrote in message ... after i allready start printing, i decided to cancel it so i choose "cancel printing" but still the printing didn't stop. it stoped only after 12 pages (1) when the printing was almost complete. why did it take so long to stop it? shoudn't it be immediate? thx. |
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how long does it take to cancel a printing job?
thx
"Tony Jollans" wrote: This can be very frustrating sometimes (even when you understand why). The 'printing' you are canceling is the process of formatting the document for printing and sending it to the printer, which has its own memory to keep the pages in until physical printing is done. When you cancel, the cancel command is not sent to the printer so it carries on printing whatever is in its memory. To cancel the physical print you have to use the printer dialog (via Start Printers, or Start Settings Printers, or similar depending on operating system) -- Enjoy, Tony "gz12" wrote in message ... after i allready start printing, i decided to cancel it so i choose "cancel printing" but still the printing didn't stop. it stoped only after 12 pages (1) when the printing was almost complete. why did it take so long to stop it? shoudn't it be immediate? thx. |
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how long does it take to cancel a printing job?
To add to what Tony has said, here is my experience with canceling printing:
1. Although you can stop printing by double-clicking on the printer icon on the status bar, if you have "Background printing" enabled, for most short documents it will disappear too quickly for you to catch. Even with background printing disabled, you're only stopping printing to the print spool, which will already have sent a large quantity of data to the printer. How many pages this will allow the printer to continue to print will depend on how much memory it has; many laser printers will go on for quite a long time, while some inkjets (which are line printers rather than page printers) have essentially no memory at all and will stop in the middle of a page. 2. You can also cancel a document in the Printers folder, as Tony mentioned, but, again, this just stops spooling the file to the printer; again, you will usually have better results with inkjets than with lasers. 3. The absolutely quickest way to stop printing is to deprive the printer of anything to print on, that is, remove the paper. Don't try this if you are using a laser printer that is drawing paper from a drawer-type cartridge, as you'll wind up with a horrendous paper jam, but if your printer has an open paper tray or a gravity-feed open cartridge, just snatch all the paper out. You'll still have to follow up with other actions, but this will solve the immediate problem. This should always be your first reaction if you're printing on expensive letterhead from an MP tray (pull-down tray on the front of the printer). 4. Whether or not you can remove the paper, your printer may have a Cancel Job button or some other way of aborting a job. If not, it will usually at least have an On Line/Off Line button. Press this button. It may still take a while for the printer to stop. 5. A Cancel Job button will do just that; taking the printer offline won't. You'll still have to go into the Printers folder and cancel it. Even so, as soon as you put the printer back online, it will continue to print the rest of the job in memory. Even turning the printer entirely off and back on may not suffice to wipe the memory, but the longer you leave it off, the better your chances. Of course, most of the above assumes that you have physical access to the printer. If it's sitting on your desk, you can do this; if it's a network printer down the hall, you'll just have to cancel the job from the Printers folder and accept that there will be quite a few spoiled pages. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "gz12" wrote in message ... after i allready start printing, i decided to cancel it so i choose "cancel printing" but still the printing didn't stop. it stoped only after 12 pages (1) when the printing was almost complete. why did it take so long to stop it? shoudn't it be immediate? thx. |
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