Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Fix Office 2010 Slow Printing Error From Network Printer

Problem :

The title says it all. It takes 2 to 4 minutes for anything printed from an Office document to a networked Canon iR2870 copier. It doesn't matter if it's a doc or docx, xls or xlsx, etc. If it's open in Office 2010, it takes for ever to print. If it's printed from Office 2007, it prints in under 30 seconds. Any suggestions?


Solution :


1. Go to Start, Control Panel and Administrative Tools. Double click on Services icon.


2. Scroll down to the Print Spooler service and right click on it and select Stop. In order to do this, you need to be logged in as Administrator. At this point, no one will be able to print anything on any of the printers that are being hosted on this server.


3. Next you need to go to the following directory: C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\PRINTERS. Delete all the files in this folder. This will clear all print queues (it’s a good idea to first make sure there are no other print jobs being processed on any of the other printers on the server because doing this step will delete those jobs also)


4. Now you can go back to the Services console and right-click and choose Start for the Print Spooler service!

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