When I send a task to my printer queue says it is printing, but it is not

original title: printer HP F2280 working from XPdesktop

When I send a task to my printer queue says it is printing, but it is not.  Everything is connected and worked OK.  Now jobs just sat there and will not even to cancel.  Any suggestions?  I had the computer and printer works several times without success.

It seems that something is "stuck" in the print queue, delete the queue.

To remove the print queue:

  1. Stop the print spooler service.
  2. Remove all files in the \WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS folder
  3. Restart the print spooler service.

You can do it at a command prompt or automate things with a batch file with the following commands:

net stop Spooler
del/q %SystemRoot%\system32\spool\printers\*.*
net start Spooler

John

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