In the process of working with the printing device, situations may arise that require an urgent solution to the question of how to cancel printing a document. Among them: jammed paper, an incorrect document was sent for printing, errors were found in the text when printing began.
Next, several methods of how to cancel the process of reproducing a document on a printer, as well as some solutions to problems arising from this, will be discussed.
Work with equipment
This option of how to cancel printing on the printer is quite easy. Its implementation is simple and fast:
- Using the button on the taskbar, open the Start menu.
- Find the Windows Settings Utility icon and launch it.
- Among the list of all sections, find "Devices". He will go second in the first line. Open it.
- In the list on the left, find the printers and scanners section.
- Among the list of equipment, find your device.
- Click on it with the left mouse button. The submenu will open.
- Press the key to open the print queue, it will be the very first.
- A window appears with a list of documents prepared for printing. To cancel the process, simply remove the desired item from the queue.
Let’s figure out another way to cancel printing on the printer.
Reboot SP
This method involves working with computer services. To cancel printing, it will be necessary to reboot the system process, which is responsible for implementing the printing procedure on the current operating axis. To successfully complete the operation, follow these instructions:
- Using a combination of Win and R, launch the dialog box for working with system commands.
- In the line, enter the phrase services.msc and confirm your actions by clicking the "OK" button.
- After that, the program will open. All local services that are currently running will be displayed here.
- Among all this list it is necessary to find the print manager.
- Activate it and in the context menu start the process of restarting the service by clicking on the corresponding button.
This method of how to cancel printing on the printer should resolve the problem. Restarting the print manager will completely delete all prepared files from the queue.
Unable to clear list
An error may occur, as a result of which it is not possible to remove documents from the queue. This is due to document blocking by the printer driver. There are two ways to solve this problem:
- Perform a standard restart of the computer and the printer itself. This should help stop printing from starting on the printer. As an option.
- If even turning on both devices again did not produce results, it is worth performing a more complicated procedure. To do this, in the Spool directory located in System 32 on the system drive, find the Printers subfolder. Perform a complete deletion of all its contents.
Attention! In this case, all data about the print queue will be irretrievably lost. Including those that were entered by other computers on the network.
Now we will figure out how to cancel printing on the printer if there is no way to delete the queue.
Forced cleaning
In this case, you will need to perform a series of operations using the command line. To successfully implement the procedure, follow the instructions below:
- Run it using the administrator name function.
- Once it opens, write down the phrase net stop spooler. It will automatically stop the service, which starts the printing process on the computer.
- Now, in this order, write the following lines: "del% systemroot% \ system32 \ spool \ printers \ *. Shd / F / S / Q" and "del% systemroot% \ system32 \ spool \ printers \ *. Spl / F / S / Q ". They will force the deletion of files with the same extension and will clean the Printers folder.
- To complete the cleaning process, re-enter the print manager stop line. After that, it will restart and the problem should be solved.